The art of the American South and Midwest is the soul of American Art. From New Orleans up the Mississippi to St. Louis, the people and places of America's heartland have been captured by the artist Joe Wood. He has traveled it's many roads, and have lived in it's darkest and most obscure regions.

His work has been sold around the world as high quality contemporary art. Wood has called his art a mixture of regionalism, futurism, and realism--all tossed together like the gumbo of rich and poor, black and white, good and bad that is truly American. 

Wood's fascination with race, American history, social and cultural traditions vividly illustrates his writing and art with the native flavor of his region. "The regional communication of Art, Literature, Music, and Myth have a central place in my work," says Wood. "These messages that link old to young, age to age, and soul to soul are on one hand universal--yet, on the other--unique, and uniquely American. They are found in Blind Willie Johnson's slide guitar, in Thomas Hart Benton's murals, and in William Faulkner's prose. Whatever that American-ness is--is very important for the Artist, the Writer, the Musician to record."