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End Game

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Rio Dreams

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This series of paintings is titled

The Landscape of Sleep.

 

It portrays how people go from a conscious state to one where the unconscious takes over. As sleep progresses there are outside or inner events that trigger progressions to other levels of sleep. These passages, from one stage to another are reflected in this series.

The bed motif appears in all the paintings as a symbol for sleep. It is based on an image found in ceremonial papers used in Vietnamese funerals. When a person dies; he or she is buried by burning representations of objects in the material world. These images are burned along with sheets of paper representing money and symbolic figures (gods) to provide a good life for the deceased in heaven.

In creating these paintings I begin working with acrylic on paper to seal the surface and develop the composition. In the next step I use oil paint and oil stick to enhance color and develop layers of texture and transparency. I use sleep as a metaphor for space. Creating the illusion of spatial opening by means of color and texture has been an ongoing concern of my work.


Into the Void

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THE SWAMP OF TIME

These paintings were created to describe the passage of time as experienced through memories and dreams. In these paintings I depict the flow of time using a series of symbols. Time, represented by geometric figures, is not a smooth continuum but is interrupted by events such as sickness, death, travel, relationships and the demands of work.

My paintings are a blend of spontaneity and calculation. I begin working with acrylic on paper to seal the surface and develop the composition. To this rather uncontrolled layer of pigment I add more descriptive elements. The small rectangles symbolize increments of time. The biomorphic elements: pairs of lips, finger shapes, abstracted torsos represent all that’s uncanny in our lives.

Broken Threads

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String theory

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Biography
Rosemary Goodell was born in California. She studied at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston, U.C.L.A., and received her B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, in art and M.A. in Painting from University of California, Berkeley. In 2003 she was awarded a visual artist fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. She received Fulbright Memorial Fund Fellowship to study and travel in Japan in 1998. Ms Goodell completed a painting fellowship at Skidmore College in 1996 and a residency in painting at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont in 2001. She has been awarded two mini-grants from the Louisiana Division of Arts (1998, 2000).

Her paintings have been in multiple national and local shows. Her work has appeared on the covers of Country Roads, Merci and the Boston Museum School magazines as well as being pictured and reviewed in Orleans, Morning Advocate, Times Picayune and School Arts. Her paintings are included in private and public collections. She is employed on the art faculty at Baton Rouge Community College.

Time Minor

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