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The work of American artist Coral Woodbury examines art history, archives, and material culture for their absences and echoes. Her current research around the re-presenting of women is realized in paintings, drawings, and in her signature Revised Edition series. With it, Woodbury creates a material intervention in the inherited Western canon, painting artist-women into the history which denied their existence. Inked-over pages, torn from Janson’s History of Art, gather a chorus of female artists. When complete, Revised Edition will total 617 portraits, and testify against the erasure of women and the hierarchies imposed on the work of their hands. In parallel, Woodbury’s oil paintings imagine different pasts which would beget a different present, exploring the possibility of hope in a poetics of history.

From rural New York (b.1971) Woodbury studied at Binghamton University (BFA) and made her way to Florence to study painting. Thirty years on, the artist-teachers she met there, collectively called rosenclaire, and a cohort of 90 other international artists, continue to work together. An MA and museum career informed her search for the buried stories of women across time and place. Art has been her path to engage in communities and lands from Kathmandu to Cuba, Italy to Ireland, where her work responds to the site and its historical resonances. Recent honors include Cill Rialaig residency (Ireland); International Mother Art Prize, Finalist (UK); and exhibition at Newport Art Museum (RI). She exhibits internationally, and her work is held in public and private collections, including Katrin Bellinger Collection and The Women’s Art Collection, University of Cambridge.

Woodbury is represented by HackelBury Fine Art, London.