Supported by A Blade of Grass, Brooklyn Arts Council, Asian Arts Initiative, and Esopus Foundation, and RedLine
Beauty in Transition established a pop-up mobile hair salon providing beauty services including a hair wash, cut, color and/or style service to willing participants living in homeless shelters. My open-access paper discussing the context, ethics, and potentials of this project can be read on MDPI. The project operated in the following cities:
• New York City
• Denver, CO
• Philadelphia, PA
• Reading, PA
• Kingston, NY
Exhibition History & Collections:
Beauty in Transitioned is included in Association de Arte Útil Archive and was exhibited in screenings at Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, MassArt Design and Media Center in Boston, Art Basel Miami Beach, Open Engagement at Oakland Museum of California, and other exhibitions.
Beauty in Transition Portraits were included in the following exhibits:
Jody Wood: Career Survey, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden, curated by Helen Hedensjö (2022)
All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT (2022)
All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (Participating artists include Glenn Ligon, Seitu Jones, Jody Wood) (2021)
A Tale of Two Cities, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC (2018)
In the Power of Your Care, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation 8th Floor Gallery, NYC, curated by Sara Reisman and George Bolster (2016)
Additionally, works were exhibited online in digital form:
2021 Strand, Ely Center for Contemporary Art: Digital Grace, New Haven, CT
The works were re-printed in an artist book:
Beauty in Transition: Portraits, 28 pages printed risograph and letterpress, edition of 100, Published
by Alder & Frank Press, 2016
This book is held in several library collections including:
• Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, New Haven, CT
• Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives Collection, Brooklyn, NY
• Trinity College Library, Hartford, CT
• Columbia University Library, NYC
The works have been reprinted and are published in Esopus Magazine: Issue 23 launched at MoMA, NYC in 2016
Cut, Highlights, and Curl (From Beauty in Transition Portrait Series), 2015 was re-printed as Risograph Prints by Skowhegan Special Edition in 2016.
