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Michael Woodcock (American artist)

Michael Woodcock is an American artist who works in painting, drawing, and printmaking.

Woodcock, who was born October 25, 1951, New Milford, CT and lived in Bridgewater, CT on Gloca Mora Farm until 1957, holds an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Claremont Graduate University. He taught as Professor of Art and Creative Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Art at the Claremont Graduate University for fifteen years.

Exhibitions

Woodcock has exhibited his paintings at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, the University of La Verne, the Claremont Graduate University, Cypress College, Huntington Beach Art Center, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, Scripps College Williamson Gallery, the Riverside Art Museum, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Claremont Museum of Art, Kohn Turner Gallery, Koplin del Rio, John Thomas Gallery, George Cuttress Gallery, and Andi Campognone Projects.

Themes

Woodcock’s paintings involve conceptual gambits based on language and appropriated images that are familiar, or even iconic, which challenge notions of authenticity and ownership.

Awards

Woodcock’s limited edition, fine art letter-press book, Fourteen Ninety Two or Three, a collaborative effort with writer Barry Sanders, and book designer Bonnie Thompson Norman of The Windowpane Press was included in the Western Book Exhibition, Rounce and Coffin Club at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA and toured across the United States to various college and university galleries. Fourteen Ninety Two or Three received honorable mention in the Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design.

Collections His work may be found in the following permanent collections. Getty Museum, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA University of California at Los Angeles, Clark Library, Special Collections, Los Angeles, CA Yale University, Yale University Library, Special Collections, New Haven, CT University of Iowa, University Library, Special Collections, Iowa City, IA University of Texas at El Paso, University Library, Special Collections, El Paso, TX California State University at Northridge, Oviatt Library, Special Collections, Northridge, CA California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Robert E. Kennedy Library, Special Collections, San Luis Obispo, CA Miyazaki International College, Miyazaki, Japan TOSCHI Art Institute, Parma, Italy Los Angeles County Public Library Fine Art Book Collection, Los Angeles, CA Paramount Pictures, Inc., Los Angeles, CA Technicolor, Inc., Century City, CA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA Jan Turner, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA