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  1. Alec Egan Poster for Artist's Exhibition 'Look Out', 2022 by Alec Egan, Image 2.

    Alec Egan

    Alec Egan Poster for Artist's Exhibition 'Look Out', 2022, c. 2022

    CMYK on gloss paper

    33 x 24 in

  2. No Trespassing #1, Paris, France 2021 by JR, Image 2.

    JR

    No Trespassing #1, Paris, France 2021, 2022

    13 color lithograph printed with Marinoni machine White BFK Rives 300 gram paper

    29.6 x 19.7 in

  3. Madrid 2015, Arnhem 2020 by Emma Safir, Image 2.

    Emma Safir

    Madrid 2015, Arnhem 2020, 2022

    Digital collage printed on silk, neoprene, pine, upholstery foam, silk thread, flashe paint

    28 x 18 x 1.5 in

  4. I Want To Sail the Oceans When I Grow Up! by Evita Tezeno, Image 2.

    Evita Tezeno

    I Want To Sail the Oceans When I Grow Up!, 2022

    Mixed media collage and acrylic on canvas

    48 x 48 in

  5. DOB Kokeshi Dolls Set by Takashi Murakami, Image 2.

    Takashi Murakami

    DOB Kokeshi Dolls Set, 2020

    Painted wood

    3.5 x 3 x 2 in

  6. Smoke MC by Ron English, Image 1.

    Ron English

    Smoke MC, 2019

    Double cast high impact resin with encased hand-painted skeleton

    6 x 4.25 x 3.5 in

  7. Stedelijk Museum exhibition catalog with drawing by Keith Haring, Image 4.

    Keith Haring

    Stedelijk Museum exhibition catalog with drawing, 1986

    Ink on printed paper

    10.25 x 12.125 x 0.775 in

  8. Tana IV by Robert Kelly, Image 3.

    Robert Kelly

    Tana IV, 1982

    Lithograph in colors on paper

    27.5 x 23.66 in

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About the artist

Richard Woods

English

b. 1966

Richard Woods uses installations in cartoon colours to satirise the housing crisis. Leaning on his previous career as a builder, the artist transforms everyday surfaces into playful and exaggerated cartoon versions. This process involves overlapping objects with statement, painted-on textures. Much of this is done through woodblock printing, using household gloss paint and 3mm MDF boards. He has likened his bright palette to the plastic-like colours of his parents' garish 1970s decor. Often executed on his studio floor, he creates graphic textures such as bricks, stones and wood grain. Despite being known for architectural installations, Woods views his work “in terms of surfaces” rather than sculpting.

Through his installations, Woods highlights the housing crisis, multiple-home ownership and gentrification. By emblazoning building structures in his iconic cartoon style, Woods satirises the very idea of house ownership as an unreachable, animated fantasy. Removed from reality, they have no real windows, no glass, no accessible front doors. There is, “nothing else that would lead the viewer to think they could live in it.” They exist in a dreamlike state, outside of numerous people’s grasp.
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