Kristen T. Woodward

My studio practice is rooted in encaustic painting and mixed media works on paper. Conceptually, I explore the destructive and creative forces of animal welfare and environmental stewardship. While these ideas have been woven throughout my artwork over the past fifteen or more years, the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted our precarious relationship with wild and domesticated animals.
My ongoing series Searching for the Minotaur focuses on zoomorphic imagery to comment on transgenic disease and genetic engineering. Team-teaching with a biologist affords me opportunities to explore scientific concepts tied to biodiversity within an archetypal framework.