Qualeasha Wood
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2021 Cotton Jacquard weave, glass beads 213.4 x 157.5 x 1.3 cm / 84 x 62 x 1/2 in
© Qualeasha Wood. Courtesy the Artist and Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick. Photos (from left to right): Qualeasha Wood and Keith Lubow
Qualeasha Wood
Qualeasha Wood’s (b. 1996 Long Branch, NJ; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a textile artist whose work contemplates realities around Black female embodiment that do and might exist. Inspired by a familial relationship to textiles, queer craft, Microsoft Paint and internet avatars, Wood’s tufted and tapestry pieces mesh traditional craft and contemporary technological materials.
Together, Wood navigates both an Internet environment saturated in Black Femme figures and culture, and a political and economic environment that holds that embodiment at the margins. Like the vast majority of her peers, Wood has operated one mortal and multiple digital avatars since pre-adolescence. Her intuitive combinations of analog and cybernetic compositional processes make for a plainly contemporary exploration of Black American Femme ontology.
On View in Somerset
‘The New Bend’, curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, is on view until 8 May 2023.