"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of three 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist painter and film maker Bruce Wood (born 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts).

 

Bruce Wood is a painter and avant-garde film maker whose works have been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and The Museum of Modern Art (Beaubourg) in Paris. He has fine art degrees from Massachusetts College of Art (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). After graduating, he worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, a major museum,  where he became acquainted with several conservation techniques.

After leaving the Art Institute of Chicago, he completed a one-year apprenticeship in color transparency retouching at Spectrum Studio in Chicago, where he learned the discipline of exact color matching and invisible image alteration. Bruce has been repairing and cleaning oil and acrylic paintings privately for over twenty-five years. For ten years Bruce  operated his own photo retouching studio in Chicago, where his accounts included Keebler, Quaker Oats, McDonalds, Jim Beam, Coors and Helene Curtis.

 

His entire family has been involved in the art business since The Woodshed Gallery was established by his parents James and Angelina Wood in 1968.  The gallery features fine art conservation framing and conducts exhibitions of contemporary and historical artworks.

 

He is founder of AFA Press,  Dreamfast Cinema, and the former Fenway Galleries in Chicago and Lakeside, Michigan.  Currently he is the director of the Woodshed Gallery in Franklin, Massachusetts.

 

Bruce Wood's films are in the collections of The Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, The Royal Film Archive of Belgium, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prints and Paintings are in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and the Rockford Art Museum in Illinois.