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The University Art Gallery is pleased to present an lecture with lauren woods. The lecture dovetails the current exhibition which features, for the first time, work from woods' series entitled The AFRICA Archive. The show focuses on the woods' long held interest in American perspectives on Africa as they relate to identity and cultural power.
lauren woods is a conceptual artist based in the Bay Area. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. Her video work has been widely exhibited throughout the U.S. Her multidisciplinary approach often combines video, sound, installation and photography to examine popular culture, race and socio-politics. Currently woods is a Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellow and is in residence at CentralTrak: The University of Texas-Dallas Artist Residency. Her video work has been widely exhibited throughout the U.S., including the traveling exhibition Posing Beauty, curated by Deborah Willis, as well as Letters from the Left Coast..., Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC (2009) Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 at The Contemporary Arts Museum-Houston, Houston, TX (2008), The California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2008), Ethno-fictives, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA (2006).
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