Aicha Woods Primary Medium: Installation Other media: Mixed media

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Artist Statement
My current art practice began in the kitchen with molten wax and frozen water balloons, frothy pillow flocking arranged on stemware, tissues hovering on filament, pearlescent buttons pinned to the walls. These fragile, ephemeral experiments are obsessively imaged and drawn. The images leap out of their intimate domestic context into mutable landscapes of indeterminate scale.
A parallel body of work consists of drawings, maps and photos of ice formations and water currents, lichens and diatoms and a proposal for biopolymer rafts to bridge gaps in the retreating ice cover of the Arctic.
Another thread connects works in unfolded clear bean threads to loosely draped wood veneer, collapsing, entangled, incidental, “found” lines and contours. It is the undoing of architecture yet at the same time there are spatial and temporal structures that are recorded in a series of blind drawings and paper cut works.









Artist Bio
Education
1997 M. Arch in Architecture from Yale University, School of Architecture
1992 B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley
Professional Experience
1997 –Present Designer, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, New Haven, CT
1994-1997 Yale University - Teaching Assistant in Drawing, Architecture Studio, American Studies
1989-1993 Research Assistant in Urban Archeology and Historic Preservation , CALTRANS, Sonoma State University and City Of Oakland CA

Exhibitions- Group Shows
2004 CUMULUS 3-woman show at Fresh Yoga, part of 2004 City Wide Open Studios (CWOS) at Erector Square, New Haven CT
2004 State of Mind Arts Council Member's Show, New Haven CT
2005 New Works/New Haven, curated by Steven Holmes, Artspace, New Haven
Temporary Settings, installation at Alternative Spaces, CWOS, New Haven
Mapping ALL GALLERY, New Haven – Installation Vermicular Scribbles
2006 Industrial Arts Classroom, collaborative installation at Alternative Spaces, CWOS, New Haven
2007 101 Dresses, curated by Linda Lindroth and Denise Markonish, Artspace, New Haven
Melt Installation at Erector Square studio, CWOS, New Haven
2008 Group Show, curated by Elizabeth Steele Visions Towards Wellness, Stony Creek, CT
Arctic remnants Installation at Erector Square studio, CWOS, New Haven
2009 Drawing Blind Installation at Erector Square Studio, CWOS, New Haven
Ongoing: Flatfiles, Artspace, New Haven

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