Grant E Wood

I was raised in a family of artists and illustrators in Chattanooga, Tennessee where I spent time growing by painting and drawing. Not necessarily seeing it for anything more than what it was: a language. In 2008, I was accepted as an apprentice into the Studio of Daud Akhriev where I was introduced to the Russian Tradition of Painting and Drawing. From there, I was granted a scholarship to attend the Florence Academy of Art where I studied the Italian tradition. Years later, I moved to England and continued my practice as an artist which is where my interest in Maritime scenes was inspired. I now reside with my dog, Artisan, back in Tennessee.

My travels, studies, and time painting en plein air provokes question in my direction a painter and so the conversation unfolds in the studio where I work from drawings, hallucinations, lucid dreams, photographs, and memories as reference for compositions. Gilding, layering, sanding, scraping, and glazing comprise the techniques used to create my work.

I paint isolations, figures, landscapes, still lives and abstractions.

I paint the estranged: the transparent in passing.

The Baylor School
2000-2008

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Bachelor of fine arts, 2013
Concentration: Painting and Drawing

The Florence Academy of Art
Certificate of intensive drawing 2009-2010

Experience:

John Wood, Fine Artist and Illustrator, Sequatchie Cove, Tennessee.

Apprentice and Student, 2004 -- 2008
Daud Akhriev, Artist and Sculptor, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Stephan Bauman, artist and teacher, Florence, Italy. Private Student, 2009- 2010

Timur Akhriev, Artist, Locarno, Switzerland.
Summer of 2011
We painted and drafted structures, cities, and landscapes in the southern region of Switzerland.

Awards & Honors
Professors and Faculty Award 2008

The University of Tennessee Scholarship Competition, February 2008

Benwood Foundation

Outstanding Young Artist Award, (Scholarship to attend Florence Academy of Art),

2009- 2010
Professors and Faculty Award

The University of Tennessee Scholarship Competition, February 2011

The Shruptrine Scholarship
The University of Tennessee Scholarship Competition, February 2012

Cress Gallery at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Tennessee Juried Student Exhibition, January 2008
Juried Student Exhibition, January 2013

Juror: Joseph Peregine. Curator: Ruth Grover Senior Thesis Exhibition: Show 1, April 2013

1401 Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Grant Wood: Urban Decay and the Figure, May 2011
Small landscape exhibition: a collaborative show, September 2011 Gallery owner: Sue Markley

AVA Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee Grant Wood: Collected Works, August 2012

Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Feed Back: an exhibition of various artists

Apothecary, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Collaborative Senior Student Exhibition, January 2013

250th Royal Queen’s Exhibition, London, England