Textile artist Qualeasha Wood's work has been collected by Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Textile artist Qualeasha Wood's work has been collected by Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The elusive artist couldn’t stay in the shadows much longer — and today, she’s very much in the spotlight. Three years after that purchase, has landed a spot in “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys,” the first major exhibit of the couple’s holdings, running at New York’sthrough July 7. The tapestry is a mesmerizing self-portrait of Wood in a red dress, encircled by a gold halo, crucified among the clouds and surrounded by her webcam selfies.
Chronically online, Wood has a love/hate relationship with social media that has fueled her curiosity about language, surveillance, worship, and, crucially, herself. It’s where she’s learned about her own body dysmorphia and expressed her struggles with mental health. The internet is Wood’s muse, a source of creative inspiration, self-reflection, and, in some cases, terror.
“My audience is by default white men and really rich white women. That’s not at all who I make work for, but I have to be aware of who’s in galleries,” said Wood. “I can’t make it easy for them. I have to create moments that disrupt their idea of safety, or ownership of a space.” ask: “are you ready? young hot ebony is online” with a button to “enter salvation.” Wood is at the center of the glitching halo holding a sacred heart on fire, inviting and indicting.
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