Christopher T. Wood to hold artist talk on “Time Loops” exhibit

RIPON, Wisconsin – Christopher T. Wood, who has previously served as an adjunct professor of art at Ripon College, is hosting an artist talk on his solo art exhibit titled “Time Loops” on Oct. 25 in Ripon College’s Demmer Hall at 7 p.m.

Following the artist talk will be a reception at the CJ Rodman Center for the Arts in Caestecker Gallery. The exhibit gallery will be open to the public Oct. 25 through Nov. 22. Caestecker Gallery hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 2-5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 2-6 p.m.

“Through my studio practice I collaborate with forces of nature, embrace chance events and study narratives of human oversight to probe the space of human existence,” Wood said. “I research at the borderline where human will collides with the universe’s tendency toward disorder and decay.”

Wood has been working on a long-term project which he started on January 1, 2016, called “Daydrawing.”

“I create daily drawings, the accumulation of which, over time, expand into a broader endeavor in the form of an entity we can experience directly but is so distributed in space and in time that it does not exist anywhere in particular,” Wood said.

Every day, Wood creates a 9-inch-by-12-inch piece using powdered graphite. The collection is “both already complete and will never be completed.”

Although the collection is dispersed through various digital publications and platforms, and in curated collections and exhibitions worldwide, it’s important to understand that “Daydrawing” is a “single object, continuously in creation and existing in many locations at once.”

“As we enter the Anthropocene epoch, this project is of enormous importance in that it promotes a more sustainable approach to understanding a world that is increasingly dependent upon a shift in human perspective,” Wood said. “My ambition for this work is to assist such a shift in human awareness through the promotion of long-term thinking.”

Wood is also an Associate Lecturer at Peck School of the Arts and a Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UW-Milwaukee. In 2022, he was named Artist-in-Residence at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

About Ripon College: Ripon College prepares students of diverse interests for lives of productive, socially responsible citizenship. Our liberal arts curriculum and residential campus create an intimate learning community in which students experience a richly personalized education.

Posted October 15, 2024 in Fine Arts, Special Event.

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