![]() ![]() San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, Home/Work (forthcoming) Unit 1, Lake Worth, Florida, It’s Going To Be Okay SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022-23 UFO Gallery, Berkeley, California, Patty’s Mashed Potatoes 2015 Old New England, Berkeley, California, Real Life Still Life Quality, Oakland, California, Lights Out Night Out Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Living Room 2016 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, Breathing Room 2018 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, The Box 2019 Nina Johnson, Miami, Woody De Othello: Coming to Light Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Looking In 2020 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Hope Omens 2021 MFA, California College of Arts, San Francisco 2013īFA, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Lives and works in Oakland, California EDUCATION 2017 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California the Rennie Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work is represented in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. In 2021-2022, Othello was the subject of a solo exhibition, Hope Omens, at the John Michael Kohler Center, and was included in Quiet as It’s Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial. Woody De Othellos’s work is currently included in Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Informed by his own Haitian ancestry, Othello takes interest in the supernatural objects of Vodou folklore, nkisi figures, and other animist artifacts that inspire him. This sophisticated gravitational effect is a central formal challenge in his work. We use phones to speak and to listen, clocks to tell time, vessels to hold things, and our bodies are indicators of all of those.” Othello’s scaled-up representations of these objects often slump over, overcome with gravity, as if exhausted by their own use. “The objects mimic actions that humans perform they’re extensions of our own actions. “I choose objects that are already very human,” says Othello. Othello’s sense of humor manifests across his work in visual puns and cartoonish figuration. Everyday artifacts of the domestic tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps, air purifiers, et cet era-are anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood, and glass. 1991) is a Miami-born, California-based artist whose subject matter spans household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA.Woody De Othello (b. His solo show at the San Jose Museum of Art opened November 1, 2019. Othello’s work has been featured in three recent biennials: “FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial” (at Akron Art Museum) “Bay Area Now 8” (at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco) and the 33rd Ljublijana Biennial in Slovenia. īorn in 1991, Othello has BFA from Florida Atlantic University and an MFA from the California College of Arts in San Francisco. ![]() It is keen to divulge a secret, share its wisdom, perhaps even proselytize or prophesize.īorn in 1991, Othello has BFA from Florida Atlantic University and an MFA from the California College of Arts in San Francisco. ![]() In an age of global warming, a towering fan may provide solace and escape, but this one also breathes and sighs. Born and raised in Miami to a family of Haitian descent, Othello is fascinated by African “Nkisi,” a belief system in which objects are inhabited by spirits. Woody De Othello’s Cool Composition is a giant bronze fan, whose anthropomorphism suggests a spectrum of emotional states. Presented by Karma and Jessica Silverman Gallery ![]()
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