Born Joseph Allen Wood, the painter grew up in Florissant, Missouri, which was an early creole settlement created in 1767. Wood admits that part of his formative years as an artist were spent taking formal and specialized art classes, but also learned quite a bit of the craftsman trade from his father. Having spent much of 1995-98 in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, Wood learned to play the junkie piano by ear, listening to the local French Market players. It was during this period that Wood developed his abstract style, which borrows from the Art Deco, Cubist, & Futurist styles, yet retains the skill of his portratist/Landscape training. Wood is known for exquisite portraiture subjects, especially that of the African-American communities in the Midwest and the South.
Joe Wood is also an aspiring writer, who's documentary "Ugly Water" is due out next year. |
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