Class is in session

The sketched desks and chairs and ghostly chalk on the boards of Sacramento-based artist Patricia Wood’s paintings in Person, Place or Thing are equivalent to the memories of time spent in the classroom: The structure is there, but the details are fuzzy. Sorry, teachers.

Interestingly, Wood is an adjunct professor at American River and Sierra colleges. She says this series is nostalgic to whatever may have happened in those rooms, “some happy, some horrific”—a universal experience.