James Woodfill

Lives and works in Kansas City, MO, USA

Artist statement

Artist’s Statement - January, 2019 At a basic level, we perceive our world by moving through it, continuously receiving information from the shifting relationships between THINGS. We form our reality kinetically in collaboration with the world. Pattern and repetition cause habits to form that distance us from this direct encounter. In my studio practice I examine and adjust the many knots tied up between place and reference, on the one hand, and material languages of form and structure on the other, to make art that infiltrates and interrupts these habits, forcing us to re-gauge our relationship to the physical world around us.

Artwork

• Stagecraft: Lichtspiel Grau-Weiss-Rot (Lightplay Gray-White-Red), 2018. Plywood, particle board, laminate, aluminum, led lights, theater gel, acrylic, gesso, various hardware and clamps.
• Certain Objects and Certain Systems, 2020. stop frame animation
• Code Practice, 2019. Mixed media gallery installation
• Signal Kit, 2017. mixed media
• Pedestrian Strands: Grand Blvd. Redux, 2017
• Pedestrian Strands, 2010. Mixed media with Architectural Plastics and photo embedded glass panels
• Kansas City Architecture, 2016. mixed media with fluorescent lights
• The Outside of the Left Side of the Inside, 2014. mixed media with sound and movement
• Cart Set With Lights #1, 2019. Acrylic paint and gesso on poplar with casters and sewing machine lights.
• Certain Objects and Certain Systems, 2020. Stop frame animation / with mixed media scupture
• Certain Objects and Certain Systems: Super Slow-Motion Static, 2020. stop frame animation
• Light Ramp (Device), 2013. Aluminum, LEDs and controllers, hardware
• Pulse, 2003. Mixed media with sound and light
• Fragments, 2010. Mixed media installation
• Rehab, 2007. Mixed media with video and sound
• Harmony, 2002. Amplifiers, tone generators, sign rotators, steel and hardware
• Tone Spools, 2002. mixed media with steel, motors and garden hose
• Training Model: Wall Model #5 (Deuce), 2019. Acrylic and gesso on birch plywood and poplar.
• Training Model: Wall Model #6, 2019. Acrylic and gesso on birch plywood and poplar.
• Training Model: Wall Model #8 (Deuce), 2019. Acrylic and gesso on birch plywood and poplar.
• Frame Sequence #3, 2019. acrylic and gesso on birch plywood, poplar and expanded PVC, clamps.
• Frame Sequence #5, 2019. acrylic and gesso on birch plywood, poplar and expanded PVC, clamps.