Artworks Gallery Presents:
Woodie Anderson | Tooth and Nail: Fragments
(solo show)

Exhibition dates: June 3-26, 2021
Gallery Hop: June 4, 2021, 7-9 pm (Meet the Artist Reception)

Woodie Anderson | Tooth and Nail: Fragments

Working with original drawings and text, found images, historical snippets, and the fever-dreams of an exhausted soul, Woodie Anderson continues her “Tooth and Nail” series exploring the tenacity of the human spirit. This exhibit features new work, including screenprints on paper and reclaimed fabrics, watercolors, and mixed media. A pop-up gift shop featuring Anderson’s popular hand-printed tea towels, note cards, HankiePankie Art Hankies, and patches will also be on-site.

While studying fine art and graphic design in college, Anderson began experimenting with the tensions between fine art and commercial applications of visual language–areas she continues to explore in much of her work through the use of text, infographics, and other collected graphic materials. Often starting with well-worn household fabrics, she employs a variety of processes including stitching, dyeing, screen-printing, and drawing to build layered, textural pieces that are full of life. Letterforms and texts–including original and appropriated writings–are integral to much of her work.

Her current series, “Tooth and Nail,” is formally inspired by banners and pennants dating from the Middle Ages, while its content centers on identity, self-protection, and self-projection. Found images of unidentified women and the accouterments of battle are also an inspiration for this in-progress series.

Anderson lives and works in North Carolina, where she also teaches printmaking at the Sawtooth School and participates in the Art-o-mat® (Clark Whittington’s vintage cigarette vending machines repurposed to dispense original artworks). Anderson’s work is featured in The Art-o-mat® “Unpacked” Book and in “Art Quilts at Play” by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston. She a member of Artworks Gallery, the longest-running cooperative gallery in Winston-Salem, and has exhibited at regional and national venues including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, SECCA, and The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at ASU.

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