Woody De Othello

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Woody De Othello
Born1991 (age 30–31)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater Florida Atlantic University,
California College of Arts
OccupationCeramicist, painter

Woody De Othello (born 1991) [1] is an American ceramicist and painter. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Early life and education

Woody De Othello was born in 1991 in Miami, Florida. [1] He is of Haitian descent. [6] [7]

De Othello received a BFA degree from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and an MFA degree from the California College of Arts in San Francisco in 2017. [2] [8]

Career

In 2015, De Othello's debut solo exhibition, It's Going To Be Ok, was held at Unit 1 gallery in Lake Worth, Florida. [9] In 2018, De Othello was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts triennial exhibition, "Bay Area Now 8." [10] In 2019 the San Jose Museum of Art hosted, Woody De Othello: Breathing Room. [6] Looking In, a solo exhibition of De Othello's work at Jessica Silverman Gallery in 2021 included ceramic sculptures, paintings, and framed works on paper. [11]

His eight-foot tall, bronze sculpture of a yellow box fan, entitled Cool Composition, received critical attention at 2019's Art Basel in Miami Beach. [2]

In 2022 De Othello was selected to participate in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin. [12] His biennial installation, The will to make things happen, included a set of exaggerated, domestic objects such as a radiator, accompanied by anthropomorphized ceramic vessels with hands and legs. [13]

De Othello has referred to an interest in pottery by South Carolinian enslaved potters such as David Drake, as well as precolonial Yoruba pottery, as inspiration for his work. [14] [15] [16]

Exhibitions

Collections

De Othello's work is in the collection of a number of contemporary art museums including: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; [20] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; [21] San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; [6] and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. [22]

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References

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  3. ↑ "Woody de Othello Mixes Playful with Political". www.culturedmag.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  4. ↑ Adamson, Glenn (2021-09-27). "Am I Blue?: Woody De Othello's Ceramic Sculptures Give Funk Art a Musical Twist". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  5. ↑ Boas, Natasha (2021-11-02). "Woody De Othello's Monuments to Everyday Life". Frieze. No. 224. ISSN   0962-0672 . Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  6. 1 2 3 "Woody De Othello". San José Museum of Art. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  7. ↑ Furman, Anna (2022-03-17). "Woody De Othello's Extraordinary Monuments to the Mundane". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  8. ↑ Walls, Jaelynn (2022-03-28). "Woody De Othello Imbues Life into His Sculptures of Everyday Objects". Artsy. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  9. ↑ SouthFlorida.com, By Phillip Valys. "Artist's creatures are ugly inside and out". sun-sentinel.com. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
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