Tour management study

2023

Not on view

For Wood, ordinary, household objects—many gifted from her maternal grandmother—have been essential vehicles for an almost sinister exploration of femininity and the body. Wood’s strange croppings and formal combinations of images and objects—here appearing to join three paintings in one—routinely suggest both a still life and something pulled from the artist’s imagination. Her ability to imply a human presence without the figure itself has been a powerful aspect of her work; images that at first appear mundane morph into something unfamiliar. While initially this work seems predominantly engaged with unexpected, symbolic juxtapositions, it is equally concerned with the possibilities of paint application upon the unusual velvet support.

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Title: Tour management study
Artist: Issy Wood (British, born Durham, North Carolina, 1993)
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on velvet
Dimensions: 85 × 69 × 2 3/8 in. (215.9 × 175.3 × 6 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Alan Wang, 2025
Object Number: 2025.745
Rights and Reproduction: © the Artist
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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