"A Person. A Place." Art of Emily Moll Wood

5 February 2012

Gallery Exhibition
Featured Event

Emily Moll Wood will show her most recent work that explores and conveys a sense of place through people.

Viewers are sure to enjoy the expressions that are captured in the faces Emily paints.  You can feel the slimy fishy smell that Katie is experiencing as you are transformed to a hot summer day pulling in a catch of the day.  You won’t want to miss seeing “Katie & Her Fish” 

Emily Wood is a recent recipient of the prestigious National Museum of Women in the Arts “Women to watch 2010” Arkansas Nominee.  Wood’s exhibit will help viewers have a greater understanding of why ‘art making’ is about the discovery of techniques and ideas, but wonderfully about self-discovery.  Part of the need for Emily to create art is a desire to validate and examine a sense of self.  One of the many functions of the arts is to heighten our senses and to offer a different way of seeing that will enhance a person’s experience with the world around them.   

 A great value of figure painting is that people are able to relate to the figure like no other subject.  In my figure paintings, I experiment with elements such as color, shape, line, light, and paint application to most effectively portray emotions or feelings.  The expressive application of paint in my work should be considered part of the subject of the painting and be used to describe the emotive quality of the painting.

Art will be on display through February 24, 2012.