Art by Turner

About the Artist - Turner Woodard

Art is one of Turner Woodard’s four hobbies. When he was in 7th grade art teacher Bill Hopper encouraged Turner, as he signs his works, to express himself. The teacher saw Turner doodling cars and race tracks during class and invited him to the art room to draw and illustrate after school. Soon Turner was experimenting with colors, shapes, styles and size, which he still enjoys doing to this day.

During his teen years growing up in Indianapolis, Hopper invited Turner to host the first-ever one man art show at Park School, his high school at the time. During this time, Turner entered a piece called Midway in an L.S.Ayres art contest and won first place with the then unusual abstract expressionist style. Midway hangs in Turner’s Meridian Street home today. The artist turned entrepreneur also has exhibited works in the Indianapolis Museum of Art rental gallery.

Turner says through the decades his artistic style and preferences have been influenced by several important and renowned artists, including 17th century painter Peter Paul Rubens and American abstract expressionists Franz Kline, William DeKooning and Jackson Pollack.

Turner now calls his own style Abstract Enthusiasm. Four of Turner’s works grace the halls of The Stutz building outside his corporate offices. The Stutz is famous for the motorcars that were produced in the building in the early 1900s and continues to be famous to the present-day for the many artists, businesses and entrepreneurs that house their offices there.

Turner himself calls The Stutz II home to his new working earth-toned painted studio. It is in this studio where he will be working on his new “WOW” series.The series style will offer subliminal words (such as wow, love or the viewer’s name) under thickly splattered, twisted and turned paints that make the viewer feel good when looking at the images, colors and textures on the canvas.Turner expects to debut the series in 2007.