“I would like my pictures to be abstract
And poetic visual images
Of friends and the world
No storytelling
Sometimes slight propaganda and quiet protest
On the edge of clear meaning.”

 

 

John Wood’s work may be found in the following collections:

Albin O. Kuhn Library (Special Collections), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, NC

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

Artisan Works, The Elizabeth Collection, Rochester, NY

International Museum of Photography & Film, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Light Work, Syracuse, NY

Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO

Pinhole Resource Collection, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM

New York Public Library, New York, NY

The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

School of Art and Design, NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Dibner Library Special Collections, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

United States Consulate, Moscow, Russia

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

CU Art Museum of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

Video Data Bank, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY