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ARTIST STATEMENT
I work looking down into an imagined garden of the mind, the architecture of the
psyche. The paintings are entirely improvisational, after the first mark is put down
it calls for the next move. A relationship begins! I am interested in opposites, in
unlikely alliances. I am not trying to depict anything I already know about; the
painting process replicates my internal life of questioning. I think of painting as a
way to say contradictory things and to span chasms of information, akin to how
we might think about poetry or jazz, two of my great loves. The final surface one
sees must hold its distinction so that previous incarnations from under the top
skin can be revealed through both the destructive and additive processes,
bypassing logic. It's my way of saying I am here- I exist for now.
BIO
Kathy Goodell was born in San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received both her BFA and MFA, before relocating to New York in 1984. While in California she studied with Jay Defeo, and Jim Nutt. Goodell has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania. She has had residencies at the BAU Institute in France and The David White residency in Costa Rica. She is both a painter and sculptor, however her focus is now solely on painting.
She has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, The Queens Arts Center, the Berkeley Museum, the Paule Anglim Gallery, and the Willoughby Sharp Gallery. She has been included in major group exhibitions at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the Boise Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mendel Art Museum, UC, Berkeley Museum, and the Drawing Center, NY.
Goodell’s work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, the New York Times, Art Spiel, Arts Magazine, artforum.com, and Avalanche Magazine, an epochal artist journal published from 1970-1976 that included the work of Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci, and many of the artists we now consider to be historical figures. Her work is represented in several books, including She Laughs Back, Feminist Wit in the 1970’s Bay Area Art; International Glass Art (Schiffer Press),; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (University of California Press); Bay Area Painting and Sculpture (Squeezer Press); and recently Infra-loop at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, where she had a retrospective. She was also included in the award-winning documentary film “Crumb” directed by Terry Zwigoff, 1995.
Goodell is also an educator, having taught at the University of California, Davis; San Francisco State University; the San Francisco Art Institute; Moore College of Art; and the School of Visual Arts. She is presently a Professor, and head of Painting, at the State University of New York, in New Paltz, where she lives and works.
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