Reid Wood

Bio:

(Gordon) Reid Wood (AKA State of Being, b.1948) is an American artist who works in a variety of media including collage, digital imaging, artist books and artistamps. He has been a participant in the Mail-Art network since 1981, and his works are in numerous Mail-Art archives around the world. He is currently Associate Professor of Art at Lorain County Community College in Elryia, Ohio.

Publications:

Robert Rauschenberg: lithographs and other related works, 1962-1970. [Oberlin, O., 1972]

Unusual people unusual places / Reid Wood. [Oberlin, Ohio] : R. Wood, [19]87. – Artist Book

Passport : state of being / Gordon Reid Wood, Jr. [1988] – Artist Book

The sacred & the profane. [1989?] – Artist Book

Codex ontologicus. Oberlin : State of Being Digital Press, 2003

Ray Johnson in Norway: State of Being Digital Press, 2003

E-flux poem : an ongoing epic : composed of subject lines from SPAM (unsolicited e-mail). Oberlin, OH : State of Being Digital Press, 2004

The Art is in the (E)-mail. Voice Argentina. http://www.vorticeargentina.com.ar/escritos/mailart/the_art_is_in_the_email.html

Sources for obtaining more information about the artist:

Perneczky, Geza. Network Atlas: World and Publications by the People of the First Network. Soft Geometry, Cologne. http://www.c3.hu/~perneczky/atlas.html (updated April 2003). Vol. 2, p. 155.