Melissa Vogley Woods (b. 1968) earned a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA from the Ohio State University. Taking experimental paths towards painting, her work claims many mediums but across them all, her work is fundamentally rooted in painting. Her paintings, sculptures and videos explore themes of sexuality, power and presence. Abstraction, landscape and still life are formulas that she flexes between visually and in the videos performatively. She has been the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Grants, and A Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant. She has been Awarded the GCAC Dresden artist Exchange Residency as well as the Residency at MASS MoCA. Her work has been exhibited locally at the Columbus Museum of Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, Weston Art Gallery and the Urban Art Space to name a few. Her work has also been exhibited Nationally and Internationally including Raskolnikow Galerie e.V., Dresden, Germany, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Sisters Aslamazyan, Guimri, Armenian Republic, The Center for Visual Arts, Denver CO, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.