Love is Strong as Death
Works By Adrian Wood
Stove Works x Visible Records artist exchange 2026
October 2nd - November 14th, 2026
Opening reception, October 2nd, 6-8PM
Open Call for Love Letters
Artist Adrian Wood is looking for love letters to anyone or anything for a love letter altar as part of the show Love is Strong As Death, October 2nd - November 14th, 2026. Letters will be shown with name and address redacted. They will be read aloud and burned in a public vigil event for the closing of the show.
Mail to:
Adrian Wood c/o Stove Works
1250 E 13th St.
Chattanooga, TN 37408
About the Artist -
Adrian makes performances, compositions, podcasts, and installations that tell stories from political struggle, focusing on personal experiences of issues like pollution, police violence, gentrification, and capitalist extraction. Their work amplifies muted sounds and subdued histories with the goal of reconnecting audiences to ourselves, our environments and each other through listening. To listen is to risk being transformed. Adrian aims to create conditions where listening can disrupt and inform, making space for personal transformation that can break harmful patterns and spark collective joy. To me, this kind of transformation is the basis of positive social change and revolution.
Adrian has shown work in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Union Docs, Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin), Hundred Years Gallery (London), the University of Virginia, and the College of William & Mary. Adrian’s work has been featured in online broadcasts and publications including Hyperallergic, WHRO, small audio art, Viral Ecologies and Jupiter Review. Adrian has been recognized and awarded through institutions including UnionDocs, The University of Michigan, Experimental Sound Studio, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Johns Hopkins Peabody School of Music, and the University of Chicago.
In their role as Multimedia Producer with the University of Virginia's Repair Lab, Adrian wrote and produced the podcast The Repair Lab. Season 1, Wading Between Two Titans, won two 2023 Signal Awards in the categories of Sustainability & Environment and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Season 2, Crosswinds, was shortlisted for a Press Gazette Future of Media award in 2024.
Adrian received a Masters in Fine Art in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art & Art History with a minor in Environmental Science & Policy from the College of William & Mary.
Adrian is a member of Studio 23, Association of Independents in Radio, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and Trans Journalists Association.
Stove Works x Visible Records artist residency trial exchange 2026.
In an attempt to strengthen regional ties between like-minded artist spaces, Visible Records and Stove Works are teaming up to offer a residency exchange program, sending one artist to the other’s space for a residency and exhibition opportunity.
Visible Records is an artist-run, community space. Our mission is to maintain an artist-centered space that nourishes and uplifts artists, activists, and organizers both locally and globally. Through offering affordable studios, art residencies, gardens, exhibitions and free Common Space events and workshops, our programming is eclectic and far reaching. We support the role of the arts and artists in worldmaking and dreaming toward a liberated and livable future. Visible Records is guided by values of reciprocity, generosity, cooperation, communalism, mutual responsibility, and co-liberation.