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Both the title and the disposition of the body in this work anticipated the largest of the drawings she executed directly on walls two years later in the 1985 Aurora Borealis exhibition, which featured installations by artists from across Canada.
Goodwin’s subject matter originated in an unforgettable incident some years earlier involving her husband, Martin, in which he nearly drowned.
After extensive research, she identified synthetic translucent materials that produced a similar effect. When they were shown in late 1983 in New York at the 49th Parallel gallery, critic Donald Kuspit wrote in Art in America, “Goodwin makes both subjectivity of image and objectivity of material excruciating, freshly difficult. The large-scale drawings depict solitary floating or sinking bodies, suspended in space.
EVERY image has full curatorial text and can be studied in depth by zooming into the smallest details from within the Image Workspace. www.davidrumsey.com/amica offers subscriptions to this collection, the finest art image database available on the internet. She enjoyed painting and drawing as a child, and was encouraged by her mother to pursue art. In 2003, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
During the 1950s and 60s Goodwin created still life paintings.
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Copyright © 2007 Cartography Associates. Water is our life, but it can take you away also.”
Betty Goodwin, “Untitled #6 (Swimmer Series)”, Pastel on Paper, 1982, 16 x 20 1/2 in.
The Gallery staged a major retrospective that year, and she was awarded the Harold Town Prize. Her work is represented in many public collections, including the City of Burnaby Permanent Art Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada.
Goodwin was born in Montreal, the only child of Romanian immigrants.
The swimmer drawings were composed over several lengths of adjoined sheets to accommodate the scale Goodwin sought.
Often repeating or reconsidering lines, as she does in many of her swimmer drawings, Goodwin reinforces the sensation of bodies struggling to stay afloat in the water that engulfs them. In 1986, to show the interaction of human figures she created her series Carbon using charcoal and wax to create drawings. Goodwin created a series of wall hangings entitled Tarpaulin from 1972-1974, which she reworked to shape into sculptures and collages.
Dissatisfied with her work, she destroyed most of it and in 1968 she limited herself to drawing.
Goodwin represented Canada at the Tokyo International Print Biennial in 1974, and the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in 1975. National Gallery of Canada
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In this image, and indeed throughout this series, the figure is suspended, afloat in undetermined space. She received the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas in 1986.
Goodwin again represented Canada at the São Paulo Biennial in 1989.
Goodwin used a variety of media, including collage, sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing, assemblage and etchings.
Betty Goodwin
Betty Roodish Goodwin, OC
Betty Goodwin
Betty Roodish Goodwin, OC
- March 19, 1923; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- December 1, 2008; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Canadian
- Neo-Expressionism
- painting,printmaking,sculpture,drawing,collage
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Betty Roodish Goodwin, OC (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.
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