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Born in 1993, Issy Wood is an emerging contemporary London-based artist known for her painterly synthesis of the past and present in her signature nightmarish aesthetic that alludes to traditions of surrealism. Born in the United States, Wood received her BA in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2015 before completing graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 2018. Drawing from influences that range from auction catalogs and objects inherited from her maternal grandmother of decades past, Wood deems herself a “medieval minnial” in her classic interpretation of modern issues. Her Kafkaesque paintings put people and everyday objects in macabre avatars with an acerbic tone that draws from iniquitous themes such as women confronted by consumerism, the material masquerade of heritage, and life and form that withers away after death.