Sugarcane Features Qualeasha Wood's 'Glitch-Feminism' Tapestries
Qualeasha Wood, This is America, Season 248, Episode 45, 2024, woven jacquard, glass seed beads and machine embroidery, 136 x 186 cm, 53 ½ x 73 ¼ in. Courtesy of the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. © Qualeasha Wood 2024. Photography by Ian Byers-Gamber.
Sugarcane Magazine recently interviewed Qualeasha Wood (MFA Photography 2021), whose work is currently on view at the inaugural edition of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum; Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, IN; and traveling exhibition, Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, currently at The High Museum, Atlanta, GA.
Wood is known for her innovative use of textile art to address Black identity and feminist themes. She combines digital techniques with traditional jacquard weaving to create pieces that challenge societal norms around race, femininity, and memory. Her work often includes self-portraits and incorporates “glitch feminism,” using digital “errors” to comment on marginalized identities.
Represented by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, her pieces reflect both personal and collective Black experiences, prompting audiences to confront issues of authenticity and identity.
Wood recently showed her work at the 30th Annual Armory Show in New York with London-based Pippy Houldsworth Gallery and presented her first solo institutional exhibition, code_anima, at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC, traveling to Rowan University Art gallery, NY, and The Newport Art Museum, RI..
Learn more:
Glitch Feminist Qualeasha Wood Weaves Black Identity Into Her Textile Art – Sugarcane Mag
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition – Brooklyn Museum
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys – The High Museum
