Goodwin first studied at the New Hampshire Institute for the Arts and later at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He was recently featured in Valley News as an “absorbing must-see” artist. He has exhibited in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and has generated tremendous excitement and curiosity with his mesmerizing work.

Wild cucumber grows vigorously in central New Hampshire where Goodwin lives. By late summer, its vines and small cucumber-like seed pods can overrun bushes and small trees. After the retreat of the following winter, desiccated vines and pods remain. The fleshy parts of the pods are gone, leaving a paper-thin envelope surrounding a delicate mesh skeleton, all housing a couple of seeds.

Inspired by these natural forms, Goodwin has been exploring multiple expressions of their unique energy. Over time, the pods have proliferated as the vines have faded. The pods have simplified into rounded outlines; circle marks. The circle marks have grown in number, jamming the surface, then overlapping one another, then piling on each other, thicker and thicker becoming ever more physical, the marks heavier, increasingly massive and insistent.

These works are about many things. They are very much about color. They are about complexity. They are about surface and physicality. They are about texture and mass. They are about finding emotion through experience. They are about paint and its numinous vocabulary. These works are visually captivating. They not only speak of the form and invasive growth pattern of the original subject, but also more fundamentally, of reproduction and decomposition in both the microcosm and macrocosm. In this way, Goodwin’s work is truly transcendent.

commissioned & site specific works are available from each artist; please call the gallery for details.

education

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
New Hampshire Institute for the Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire

exhibitions

2011    Synesthesia, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2011    Recent Work, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2010    Shared Response, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2010    Give & Take, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2009    March Group Show, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009    Push & Pull, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2009    Biennial Regional Jurors Choice Competition, Thorne Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, New Hampshire
2009    In the Middle, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2008    Group Experiment, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2008    Red Dot Miami, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2008    15th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New  Hampshire
2008    Synesthesia, Sulloway and Hollis, Concord, New Hampshire
2008    Group Dynamics, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2008    Group Therapy, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2008    Red Dot New York, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2007    Formation & Decay, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2007    Symmetry and Motion, Anderson Soule Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire
2007    Art and Bloom, Anderson Soule Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire
2006    Radical Simplicity, Anderson Soule Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire
2006    Group show, eo art lab, Chester, Connecticut
2006    Four Person Show, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2005    13th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2004    Artful Epicure, Anderson Soule Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire
2004    12th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2004    Boston Private Bank, Boston, Massachusetts
2003    Squares, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2003    11th Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2003    Face It portrait show, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, New Hampshire
2003    Anderson Soule Gallery, Concord, New Hampshire
2002    A Conversation Between Three Artists, ArtSpaceMaynard, Maynard, Massachusetts
1999    Dana Pond Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1999    Graduating Student Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1998    Student Annual, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1997    Scapes, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1997    Bolt Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1997    Drawing Show, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1994    Concord Area Artists, McGowan Fine Arts, Concord, New Hampshire

bibliography

Close Up, Lebanon Valley News, January 2006
New at AVA: Absorbing Must-See-Exhibits, Art New England, 2006