Gurdon Woods 1915- 1980

 


Sculptor. Born in Georgia; studied at the Copley Society in Boston (1933- 1935), the Art Students League of New York (1935- 1939), and the Brooklyn Museum (1945- 1946). Director of California School of Fine Arts from 1956- 1960.

"Shortly after arriving, Woods revamped the faculy to include Bischof, Diebenkorn, Jerson, Lobdell, Kuhlman, and Nathan Oliveira. The Faculty was fairly evenly split between figerative and abstract painters." (Landauer, 124)

In the late 1960’s he worked primarily in concrete, making fragmented architectural structures with mangled and twisted reinforcing rods that suggested contemporary ruins in the aftermath of inexplicable catastrophy. (Albright, 323)