Nancy June Wood

My current work is a synthesis of photography and digital painting, using the aesthetics of the Texas Hill Country. These images invite the viewer to engage intimately with a dynamic moment in the environmental milieu. Colors are intensified and the forms are abstracted to express emotive qualities one experiences in nature.

I received my B.A. and M.F.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles where I studied with influential California artists including Robert Heineken and Richard Diebenkorn. During the late 1990’s I began using the computer as a virtual paintbrush. My early digital works were included in the Museum of Modern Art New York’s “Museum as Muse” online exhibition, the Las Vegas Truly Virtual Art Museum and “The Petersburg Biennale of Computer Graphics” in St. Petersburg, Russia and many other exhibitions.

Graphics software programs evolved and became more intuitive. My use of them has evolved to a state closer to the flow I experienced when painting with oils. I choose and adjust colors, move and edit shapes, apply tints and glazes and become completely engrossed in thinking visually about the image. My recent works have been displayed in the McNay Art Museum 2014 “Art to the Power of 10”; 2014 “Nuevo Arte” at the University of Texas San Antonio, 2014 “Spark” exhibition at San Diego Convention Center, and the 2015 12th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, University of Barcelona.