KENDRA JAYNE PATRICK
NADA MIAMI BEACH (in New York)
NADA MIAMI BEACH (in New York)
PRESENTING A SOLO SUITE OF NEW TUFTINGS BY QUALEASHA WOOD
DELI GALLERY
DELI GALLERY
DECEMBER 1–5, 2020
CURRICULUM VITAE
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Kendra Jayne Patrick is pleased to debut Qualeasha Wood’s newest works for NADA Miami Beach (in New York) 2020, high-contrast tufted wool and acrylic pieces that continue the artist’s thoughts about the relationship between the avatar and the self. Here, Wood composes her ideas on the subject by means more manual and personal than the ones she uses to make her seminal tapestry works.
While the tapestries are weaved by a powerful machine and depict social media-esque self portraits of the artist that are hundreds of Photoshop layers deep, Wood applies each individual thread to the tufted works by hand. The result of such a physical, analog process (underlined by the fact that the larger works are taller than Wood herself, who is quite petite) is a depiction of a less literal self and a more literal interpretation of blackness-as-experience. Evocative of MS Paint doodles, Betye Saar’s, “Black Girl’s Window,” DIY Pinterest, and Ebecho Muslimova’s “Fatebe” drawings, these works feel like the young artist’s most personal field notes on an endlessly disquieting year.
While the tapestries are weaved by a powerful machine and depict social media-esque self portraits of the artist that are hundreds of Photoshop layers deep, Wood applies each individual thread to the tufted works by hand. The result of such a physical, analog process (underlined by the fact that the larger works are taller than Wood herself, who is quite petite) is a depiction of a less literal self and a more literal interpretation of blackness-as-experience. Evocative of MS Paint doodles, Betye Saar’s, “Black Girl’s Window,” DIY Pinterest, and Ebecho Muslimova’s “Fatebe” drawings, these works feel like the young artist’s most personal field notes on an endlessly disquieting year.
The Itis, 2020Tufted wool and acrylic
30 x 30 inches
76 x 76 centimeters
Meek Mill’s Dreams and Nightmares, 2020Tufted wool and acrylic
30 x 30 inches
76 x 76 centimeters
Float, Sink, Drown, 2020Tufted wool and acrylic
76 x 61 inches || 193 x 155 centimeters
After Dark, 2020Tufted wool and acrylic
58 x 48 inches
147 x 122 centimeters
_______ in the Big Blue House, 2019Tufted wool and acrylic
58 x 48 inches || 147 x 122 centimeters
Untitled study, 2020Tufted wool and acrylic
24 x 24 inches
61 x 61 centimeters
