SHIRLEY WOODSON (1936 - )
Being pedestrian one might miss the call .

Collage overlay on buff wove paper, circa 2019. 267x203 mm; 10½x8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Collage is one medium from Shirley Woodson's multi-hyphenate practice. Widely known for her figurative paintings, she practices collage dealing with memory, absence, and desire. Her collaged lithographs are photomontage, composed and layered archival images that emit a spectral quality with the ability to conjure multiple histories.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Shirley Woodson is a visual artist, educator, and mentor whose carrer spans over 60 years. Entrenched in the visual arts from her youth, she earned her BFA and MFA from Wayne State University in 1958 and 1966. Woodson did graduate work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960 and pursued independent study in Rome, Paris, and Stockholm in 1962.

In the mid-1960s, Woodson beacame an educator in Michigan's Highlan Park School District, Wayne State University, and with the Detroit Public Schools from the early 1990s to 2008. Throughout her career she mentored Sonya Clark, Gilda Snowden, Elizabeth Youngblood, Dwight Smith, and Kimberly Harden. Woodson's artworks are in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC.

Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.