About

Justin Wood was born in Eau Claire, WI and grew up in Woodbridge, VA.   In 2000, he moved to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts where he studied with artists Michael Goldberg, Lynn Umlauf, Jack Whitten, Joanne Greenberg and Brooke Larsen. At SVA, his work developed from small scale collages into large scale amalgamations of found print media, plastics, patterned paper, wood and paint.

After graduating in 2004, Justin found work in a print shop where he discovered the use of inkjet ink as a painting medium. Using the inkjet ink with various print media, he started creating material for collage by hand.  Justin pours, splatters and squeegees the ink across the print media, then cuts up the result and collages it together into a painting.

In 2007, Justin started to work with bands, Dub Trio, Consider the Source and Wounded Buffalo Theory by performing improvised live video mixing during their sets. Recently, he has started to utilize the technologies he learned through live video mixing with his collaged paintings. This new work is a synthesis between the live object collage painting and video projections. Each video is specifically designed to interact with the formal elements of the painting creating a true connection to the live object.  The reproduced projected image vibrates against the original object to create what Justin calls Hyper-Presence.  His latest work is breaking new ground in the space between traditional painting and new media art.

Justin’s work has recently been in group shows at the Thomas Werner Gallery (Chelsea, NYC), Blank Space Gallery (Chelsea, NYC), Lana Santorelli Gallery (Chelsea, NYC), and he has had solo exhibitions at the New Art Center (Fashion District, NYC), 37 Orchard (LES, NYC) and the Lex Leonard Gallery (Jersey City, NJ).

Studio is located at 365 36th st. in New York City.