Brandon Woods
Born: 1987
Hometown: Knoxville, Tennessee
Based in: Knoxville, Tennessee
Brandon Woods‘ artworks bridge art, craft, science, and mathematics, while also conveying vibrant passions, sensitive intimacies, and rich histories unique to each viewer, through the associations they establish between the work and their individual past experiences. His artistic practice is heavily research-based and interdisciplinary: his investigations of diverse fields such as optics, computer programming, neuroscience, linguistics, and probability theory have enabled him to pursue highly innovative approaches to creating works of art in a four-dimensional arena through mathematical formulas and chance-based algorithms of his own design.
Woods earned his MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in 2015. He has received numerous awards and grants for his work, including, most recently, a Bailey Opportunity Grant through the Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance. His work has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and internationally, in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, Hong Kong, Canada, and France. His work is on permanent display in a number of hotels and residencies, including The Andaz in Savannah, GA, The Georgian Terrace in Atlanta, GA, and The Whitehall in Houston, Texas. He is currently preparing a large body of new works for his upcoming solo exhibition “Dimensionality” in July, 2021 at the Emporium Center for Arts and Culture in Knoxville, TN.
More About Brandon Woods
Describe your creative process.
I observe and question what is known in the world and assumed to be true, and then use science, mathematics, and my own inventions to challenge it and show it to be otherwise through my artwork.
What are 3 words that best describe your work?
Dimensionality, Perception, Interdisciplinary
Who are some artists that have influenced your work?
Leonardo DaVinci, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, James Turrell, Josef and Anni Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, William Morris, Kenneth Noland, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, Jo Baer, Sol LeWitt, John Cage, René Magritte, Lee Bontecou, Paul Cézanne, Fillipo Brunelleschi, Rachel Roysch, Diego Velázquez, Claude Monet, Edweard Muybrudge. Some other great minds who have influenced my work include: Isaac Newton, Eric R. Kandel, Aristotle, Euclid, Pythagoras, Archimedes, René Descartes, Ayn Rand, Roland Barthes, Brent Berlin and Tim Kay, Goethe, Andrey Kolmogorov
What is the most important tool when creating your work?
My most important tool is my mind.
Where do you go for inspiration?
I go to my studio. Inspiration comes through work, and through the challenge each artwork brings.
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Credentials
Education
SCAD
United States of America, 2015
Middle Tennessee State University
United States of America, 2010
Awards
Bailey Opportunity Grant, Bailey Foundation, Knoxville, TN
2019
Chair’s Fellowship, SCAD, Savannah. GA
2015
SCAD Residency, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
2014
Exhibitions
Spatium
United States of America, 2021
//Spectrum
United States of America, 2015
Brandon Woods: New Works
United States of America, 2014
In Absence
United States of America, 2011