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Artist: Gena Wood
4/3/08 $100
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Description
One of our student artists who did a great
job with color, mosiac tiling and design. There is a lot of attention to detail in the tiling. She uses vibrant
spring and summer colors to draw the viewer closer to see all the work that has been laid out on this non-traditional art
form. The desk is an old elementary desk which is about sixty years old. The artist mixes media to give the viewer
more to enjoy.
Click on the pictures to see the detail of the work.
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Artist Statement:
For my desk I chose to do a theme on growth and change. The title,
Beauty in Transformation, is based on how everyone transforms for the better or for the worse but can be seen as beautiful
by whoever is seeing the transformation. Transformation is beautiful to me because without it we wouldn't have creativity
or differences. I believe that without change growth does not occur.
Throughout school students
are constantly changing and growing and I think school is a big part of how someone is as an adult. I chose to do the
desk on this theme because of how much school has made me grow. I choose to do a butterfly because of the transformation
it goes through as well as a flower. I repeated the sun form because the sun is why there is change in the world and
the most essential part of growing.
School is also about learning but growing as a person is more
beneficial when you are out of school and you need the social skills developed in school.
About the Artist Gena Wood is a senior at Dundee Crown High
School. She has been interested in art since elementary school and started taking classes through the Elgin Park District
and continued taking classes when she entered high school. Miss Wood will major in art in college and can't
wait to start a career in the art field.
Through high school Gena has taken Design 1 and 2,
Black and White, Photography, Color, Graphic Design, Mixed Media, Painting, Methods and Independent Studies. She has
experience with many media: ebony, colored pencil, pastel, marker, oil pastel, oil paint, tempera paint, acrylic paint, photography,
silk screen, polymer clay and ceramics.
Her passion for art has deeply formed who she is today.
Art has helped her to look at things differently than most people and sometime analyze more often.
Sponsor
Illinois State Representative Michael Tryon
Visit the Representative's
site by clicking on his picture
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