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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Melissa Vogley Woods
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Bio
I work in Sculpture, Painting, Installation and Video.
Through the various materials used in my work I explore conditions of care, loss, and solace we find in each other and the botanical world. Broadly, topics that I investigate are interiority/exteriority, self/other, and the familiar with a focus on matrilineal.
Melissa Vogley Woods (she/her) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, teacher, and artist-curator born and residing in Columbus, Ohio. Vogley Woods is a multi-generational caregiver of 20+ years. Her practice is aligned with her life as a way to delve into the intricacies of care within relationships with a specific focus on barriers and how we bridge them. Her metaphorical work spans between public art, social practice, and intimate exploration of the object.
Recent recognition she has received includes a National USA Fellowship nomination, two Ohio Art Council Individual Artist Grants, and A Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist grant, and she has exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally in such institutions as the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Sisters Aslamazyan in Armenia, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She attended Mass MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and Wassaic Projects Residencies and her work has been written about in the Brooklyn Rail among others.
Vogley Woods is a dedicated arts organizer, recent curatorial projects include “Lobby,” a series of three-person exhibitions held in a Planned Parenthood surgical center, and “Room to Let” series held in donated houses that exhibited seventy artists over three years of programming.
Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary visual artist working in installation, sculpture, and sculptural paintings. I explore conditions of care, loss, and solace we find in each other and the botanical world. Broadly, I investigate interiority/exteriority, self/other, and the familiar with a focus on matrilineal. My methodologies include optical illusion, breaking down foreground/background, layers/overlap, and contrasting hard/soft and repetition. My work is a blend of materiality, figuration, architectural structures, and plant shapes intertwined and layered.
