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MARK WOODS

Opening Reception Thursday, January 16, 6 - 8 PM

Irena Popiashvili and Marisa Newman of SUITE 106 are pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of New York-based artist Mark Woods. Woods’s new series, Access, investigates a contradiction inherent in the photographic medium. A photograph is a portal to the world, yet at the same time its two-dimensionality precludes any entrance. Woods’s favorite theme in photography’s history is this dialogue between the transparency of the window and the impenetrable surface of the picture plane. The subjects of his pictures include doors, gates, windows, and drain grates all of which regulate or limit access, but never in the way or to the extent they seem to at first glance. Their ambivalence as to how and how much they withhold access can only be understood closer inspection of the large, finely detailed color prints that represent them.

Mark Woods graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and completed his MFA at Arizona State University. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, Plus Ultra, and GAle GAtes et al., among other venues.