AMANDA WOODS
b. 1984, Alabama, United States
Lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee

Amanda Woods is a multidisciplinary artist whose work exists between painting, sculpture, and collage. Through processes of cutting, weaving, layering, and reconstruction, Woods transforms traditional painting into tactile environments that emphasize movement and material tension. Her practice frequently incorporates reclaimed textiles, braided rope, spray-painted fabric, chain, fringe, and other found materials, allowing each work to oscillate between structure and collapse, permanence and impermanence.

Rooted in abstraction and deeply physical practice, Woods’ work explores how material surfaces can hold memory. Her compositions begin as painted forms that are later fragmented and rebuilt, creating dimensional works that challenge the boundaries of painting while embracing imperfection, rhythm, and repair.

Community participation and collective mark-making also play an important role in Woods’ practice. Through public activations, collaborative paintings, and educational engagements, she investigates the relationship between individual gesture and shared experience.

Woods’ work reflects an ongoing interest in transformation: how materials can hold history, how destruction can become reconstruction, and how softness and tension can coexist within the same object. Her hybrid works resist fixed categorization, existing instead as evolving surfaces that continue to shift through light, movement, and viewer interaction