Notable Achievements

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Ariel Wood exhibited their work in a solo show at Southwestern University’s Fine Art Gallery. The show, titled “porous,” takes as its primary point of reference the detention basins neighboring carceral facilities in Georgetown. These forms of infrastructure—sometimes themselves referred to as detention facilities—are stormwater management systems designed to temporarily collect runoff and release it gradually until fully drained. Typically dry, these concrete depressions punctuate the landscape with a brutalist austerity, their ambiguous function compounded by the uncanniness of government landscaping. Their work will be on view until March 26.

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Ariel Wood

Visiting Assistant Professor

Expertise

Sculpture, Ceramics, Printmaking

Ariel Wood is a Texas-based artist by way of California and Wisconsin. They received a BFA in printmaking and drawing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison 2016, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Santa Reparata International School Of Art, in Florence 2016, and their MFA in Sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin 2022, where they were the recipient of the Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture and the Continuing College Fellowship. In 2023, Wood was a finalist for the Alice C. Cole Fellowship and was voted Concept Animals’ Community Favorite Sculptor Artist in Austin. Wood was a resident artist at Watershed Ceramics’ Summer Residency (2022) and Sweet Pass Sculpture School (2024). Ariel Wood is a sculpture artist interested in the way plumbing and drainage can elicit notions of interconnectedness, liminality, and queerness. Wood picks and parses out those aspects of the larger system that appear strange, silly, or sentimental. They have exhibited their work nationally and internationally in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, New York, and Florence, Italy.

  • Biography

    Ariel Wood is a Texas-based artist by way of California and Wisconsin. They received a BFA in printmaking and drawing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison 2016, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from Santa Reparata International School Of Art, in Florence 2016, and their MFA in Sculpture from The University of Texas at Austin 2022, where they were the recipient of the Lomis Slaughter, Jr. Endowment Scholarship In Sculpture and the Continuing College Fellowship. In 2023, Wood was a finalist for the Alice C. Cole Fellowship and was voted Concept Animals’ Community Favorite Sculptor Artist in Austin. Wood was a resident artist at Watershed Ceramics’ Summer Residency (2022) and Sweet Pass Sculpture School (2024). Ariel Wood is a sculpture artist interested in the way plumbing and drainage can elicit notions of interconnectedness, liminality, and queerness. Wood picks and parses out those aspects of the larger system that appear strange, silly, or sentimental. They have exhibited their work nationally and internationally in Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, New York, and Florence, Italy.

  • Publications

    “Suspicion is a Material in Ariel Wood’s Solo Exhibition, ‘raze’” by Emily Lee. September 27, 2023