Kay Wood’s current work builds upon concerns that she has explored in different bodies of work over the years. She continues to use various mediums to achieve intriguing balanced compositions. Her work features digital imagery, mixed media, books and installations. She uses many layers of paint and medium to build surfaces and includes disparate symbols such as articles of clothing: gloves, vintage dresses, shoes, as well as natural elements such as fossils, shells, animals, birds, and fruit. Many of the representational elements have multiple meanings. Shells depicted are often not shells, but fossils. The original shell ceased to exist eons ago, but the representation of the shell is captured eternally by the rock or silica that retains the shell’s impression. This phenomena has an echo in Wood’s artistic process. The clothing has been worn. The shoe’s curled inner sole or the shirt’s wrinkles are evidence of a former presence that is no longer. These traces of past life resonate in Wood’s work.

In Kay Wood’s current series, things tend to overlap more and be selectively revealed. Her use of symbolic language and her references to nature create an inherently organic feeling in her work and a keen sense of architectonic structure in the way she paints and collages her compositions.

Kay Wood has had solo shows and group exhibitions in the United States and Japan. Among her most recent exhibitions have been :Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC; Yokohama, Japan; the Montgomery Center for the Arts, Skillman, NJ; Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY; Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA; Smith Barney, NYC; to name a few. She has also exhibited at a number of fine art museums and institutions including the Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA; The Alternative Museum, NYC; Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA; North Eastern University, Boston, MA; Penn State University, Philadelphia, PA; and WARM, Minneapolis, MN. She has received numerous awards including: Abington Art Center show awards, Jenkintown, PA; Fellowships/residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Blue Mountain Center, NY and the University of Massachusetts First prize. She is a four-time recipient of the Whitehall Foundation Scholarship. Her work has been profiled and cited in COVER Magazine, NYC, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Art Week Boston, among other media. She received a BFA degree at Philadelphia College of Art. Ms. Wood’s work is in several public and private collections.