Kesler Edward "Kes" Woodward (born 1951) is an American artist, art historian and curator. Known for his colorful paintings in the northern landscape, he was awarded the first Alaska Governor's Award for Life Performance in Art in 2004. Woodward has also written extensively on Northern Circumolar Arts and has curated exhibitions that have toured Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, and Georgia.
The north dominates the Woodward oeuvre and the iconography of crows, canyons, sandbanks and black pine trees has been described as "very evocative of Alaska". Considered one of "the most innovative artists in Alaska", author Julie Decker notes that, unlike traditional landscape painters, "The focus is on media characters as well as on the subject." Woodward works in oil, oil pastries, and acrylics and has described his artistic process as "applying, discarding, modifying, and building other colors... to achieve a sense of how I feel, being in a certain place, more than how the place looks. The birch tree, the subject of his signature, is painted to be representational and, when viewed closely, abstract. Although a "realist", his graphic composition encourages Mascale reviewers to add, "his interests and strategy lead to abstraction.Whether space is wide or limited, Woodward describes it as a flat area with foreground and background pressed together and overall reduced to pattern."
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Kesler Edward Woodward was born in Aiken, South Carolina in 1951. After high school, Woodward was enrolled as a chemistry major at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Following a painting introductory course and a visit to the National Gallery in Washington, he developed an interest in contemporary abstract art. In Davidson, he studied painting under Herb Jackson and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Art) degree in 1973. He continued his studies in painting and graphic arts and graduated in 1977 with Master of Fine Art from Idaho State University (Pocatello). Woodward then moved to Juneau, Alaska, and began inserting the landscape into his art. His work was influenced by artists Richard Long (artist), Andy Goldsworthy, and Hamish Fulton, and in 1982 the landscape was his dominant genre.
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Careers
Initial career
Woodward was first appointed the Temporary Exhibition Curator (1977-1978), and then the Curator of Visual Arts (1979-1981) at the Alaska State Museum (Juneau). He was also appointed as Artistic Director at the Alaska Visual Arts Center in Anchorage (1978-1979). In 1981 he moved to Fairbanks to teach art at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was later appointed Director, University of Alaska Fine Arts Gallery (1982-1988). In 1989 he curated the Sydney Laurence: Painter of North at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Museum of History and Art of Whatcom (Bellingham, WA), the Oregon Historical Society Museum (Portland), and the Desert Desert Museum Springs. During that time, he was assigned to provide paintings for the 1988 Governor's Award for Art in Alaska, and a painting featured on posters for the 1988-Canadian Winter Olympic Games in 1988.
1990s
In 1991, Woodward was appointed an Affiliate Collection of Academic Art at the Museum of Alaska University (Fairbanks). He was also appointed Chair of the Arts Department (1995-1998) and Chairman of the Arts and Communications Division from (1996-1998) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. During this period he spent the exhibition Spirit of the North: Art Eustace Paul Ziegler at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art (1996-1998). Increasingly known as an artist, his work was selected for the 1992 exhibition of Contemporary Art from Alaska at the Magadan Civic Gallery (Magadan, Russia). His solo exhibition was held at the University of Alabama-Huntsville in 1990; at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska Fine Arts Gallery from Alaska University, and Anderson Arts Center (Anderson SC) in 1994; and in the Gallery of Jerald Melberg (Charlotte NC) in 1990, 1993, and 1997. He was assigned to create four large paintings for the Elmendorf Pacific Rim Hospital (Anchorage, AK) in 1997. His paintings also illustrate Frank Soos' 1999 book > Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Fisheries Reflection and Geography of Grace .
2000s
In 2000, Woodward retired as Professor of Art at Alaska University Fairbanks to paint full-time, receiving emeritus status from the university. The following year, he was appointed as Harriman Scholar and Expedition Artist for 1890 Harriman Expedition Retraced . He also curated the A Northern Adventure: The Art of Fred Machetanz (1908-2002) exhibited at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Morris Art Museum (Augusta, GA) and Alaska. State Museum. His painting attracted national attention when his work was reviewed at ARTnews in July 2001 and appeared in Harper's Magazine in January 2002. Woodward was assigned to provide four great paintings for the Holy Family. Chapel at the Catholic School of Immaculate Conception at Fairbanks in 2002. He also received a public commission for the Rabinowitz Courthouse (Fairbanks, AK) in 2004, and for Anchorage International Airport in 2009. During this time his solo exhibition was held at the Morris Museum Art (Augusta GA), and at the Jerald Melberg Gallery (Charlotte NC) in 2001; at the University of Alaska, and Kenai Campus Art Gallery in 2003; and at Aiken Center for the Arts (Aiken, SC) in 2009. His paintings are also published in the poetry book Peggy Shumaker Blaze .
2010s
In 2011, Woodward art was featured in exhibitions at the Alaska State Museum (Juneau) and Pratt Museum (Homer, AK). The single exhibition of his work was held at Christa Faut Gallery (Cornelius, NC) in 2011, at the Vashon Allied Arts Gallery (Vashon, WA) in 2012, and at the Beaux-Arts des Amérà © riques (Montreal) gallery in 2013. His the painting depicts John Morgan's poetry book 2014 Rivers of Light . Woodward lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Contribution
Woodward has painted North from Hudson Bay to the High Arctic and from British Columbia to Alaska and Siberia. Art historian Estill Curtis Pennington writes, "Kes Woodward seems to be carrying the full authority of a carefully studied art tradition to... sweep through the seemingly immeasurable visions of Alaska grass." In John Driscoll's "The Artist and the American Landscape" writes of "simple and compelling devotion to the beauty and serenity of nature." In the Message Splitter: Alaska's Most Innovative Artist , Julie Decker describes his work as "approachable both as a color field abstraction as well as a depiction of real or synthesized places." In November 2004, Woodward received the Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award for Art. Woodward was also awarded the 2012 Distinguished Artist Award of the Rasmuson Foundation "in recognition of the creative excellence of Alaskan artists and superior achievements in art". He has also served on the board of the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation, the Western Art Federation, and the State Council of Alaska Arts.
As an art historian and curator, Woodward writes six books on Alaska art including the first survey of fine arts in Alaska, North Paintings and Alaskan Paintings, and Spirit of the North: Eustace Art Paul Ziegler , Northern Adventure: The Art of Fred Machetanz (1908-2002) . During the 1990s, he also wrote "The Changing Image of the Native Alaska in the Work of Explorer Artists", published in Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805 ; "Persuasive Picture: Photo of the Arctic Vilhjalmur Stefansson", presented at the British Museum and published in the Arctic Imaging ; and "Contemporary Cree Art in Northern Quebec", published in the Social and Environmental Impact of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project . In 2007, he also contributed to the Thin Ice: Inuit Tradition in a changing environment. Since 1991 Woodward has been a Research Associate External, Arctic Studies Institute at Dartmouth College (Hanover NH), as well as Director of the Arts and Humanities Project (1988-1991), at Dartmouth's Institute on Canada and the United States.
His paintings are found in the general collection of the Morris Art Museum (Augusta GA), Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma WA), Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska State Museum (Juneau), Alaska University Museum (Fairbanks). ), and Alaska Contemporary Art Bank (Anchorage).
References
External links
- Kesler Woodward . Dir. Patrick Race. Rasmuson Foundation . 2012. Video.
- "Alaska Artist: Kesler Woodward." Natural Alaska . Web.
- Woodward, Kesler. "Alaskan Beach Painting: Harriman Expedition Painting in Context." Harriman Expedition Retraced: PBS.org. Web.
- Woodward, Kesler. "A Sense of Wonder: Alaskan Art." Harriman Expedition Retraced: PBS.org. Web.
- Woodward, Kesler. "Alaskan Art and Sense of Wonder." University of Connecticut. Web.
- "Artist: Kesler Woodward." Beaux-arts des AmÃÆ' Ã… © riques . Web.
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