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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. |
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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. |
