Rancho Santa Fe, CA – Oolong Gallery is proud to announce "installations," a site specific living and sound installation presentation by Andre Woodward. This will be the first presentation of its kind in the Oolong program and features indoor / outdoor pieces running parallel to Colletta's landscape / architecture oriented painting show. Woodward originally first exhibited his signature cube sculptures in San Diego (2009) at a project space called Spacecraft, run by artist Chris Puzio and featuring such sculptors as Matt Wedel, Christian Tedeschi, Andy Ralph, amongst others.
Andre Woodward is a Southern California artist. His work focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and humanity, using a mixture of manmade and natural materials, inspired by the unique dynamics of the Southern California landscape. Woodward received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from University of California, Irvine and a Master of Fine Art degree in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach. He was presented with the Vision from the New California Award in 2011. His art has been featured in “The Language of Mixed Media Sculpture”, “My Green City” and on the covers of Sculpture Magazine and the most recent Visions from the New California catalog. His projects have been exhibited with Studio La Citta in Verona Italy, at the 18th Street Art Center, the Laguna Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, with solo exhibitions at the Huntington Beach Art Center, Whittier College, and Villa Montalvo. Andre Woodward is a Southern California artist whose work examines the very complicated relationship we have with nature. His work has been exhibited internationally.
CV
"Woodward casts trees in concrete, almost as a strange play on the traditions of bonsai. Combining his passion for biology and fine art, he has long been interested in the contemporary landscape that surrounds us: concrete parking lots pressing down the roots of trees, the façade of heavily manicured parks and neighborhoods, and the constant push and pull of negotiating an environment made up of both the natural and manmade. His sculptures nod to the cubes of Donald Judd, while foliage outgrowth interrupts the severity of Judd's minimalism. Woodward states, 'I think of the work in terms of a paradox, which leads to the gaining of a sort of spiritual awareness. The truth of the matter is that our human environment is dictated by a perpetual struggle for control for control between the human and natural environments, where at any given moment one or the other will have the advantage.'”
– Grace Kook Anderson
"I will be exhibiting a redwood slab sound sculpture with two accompanying cube tree wall pieces. The redwood piece is an amalgam of nature’s analog recordings (represented in the grains of the redwood and the growth of salt crystals) and digital recordings playing through the work. Formally the work alludes to mid-century design and while harking a reliance on digital technologies."
– Andre Woodward
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Opening Reception: Friday, June 28 from 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: 06/28—07/23, 2025
Location: Oolong Gallery, 6030 La Flecha, RSF, CA
Gallery Hours: Wed–Sat, 11AM–5PM | appointments advised w/ wider availability
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