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Randy Wood's paintings, watercolors, and installations have appeared at numerous galleries and institutions in Seattle, including the Center on Contemporary Art, SOIL, and Roq La Rue; as well as Vancouver's Moonbase, Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, KCDC in New York, and Aqua Art Miami in Miami Beach. His illustrations and comics have appeared in The Stranger, Tablet, Washington Business and Politics, and The Anchorage Press. He is a member of the Seattle artist run gallery, SOIL. In 2003 he organized a group show of the SOIL members for the Bumbershoot festival. This group show, The Gallery of Collections and Creations, exhibits a personal collection from each artist along with examples of their artwork Bumbershoot, a three-day music and arts festival that sees over 100,000 visitors each Labor Day weekend, has been an important Seattle tradition since 1971 and is one of America's largest urban arts festivals. In 2005 he organized SOIL's exhibition at Aqua Art Miami, an art fair that takes place on the same weekend in December as Art Basel Miami Beach. In 2006 SOIL again participated in the December 2006 Aqua Art Miami. |
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The natural world, animals, and humor play dominant roles in Randy Wood’s paintings,
illustrations, and installations. No matter how urban one’s environment is plants and animals inevitably find a way of creeping
in. Merging the real with the imaginary, his body of work suggests an almost pristine natural world that should look familiar, but doesn’t.