Statement

Dorothy Goode’s paintings explore the interplay between text, drawing, and gesture. Exploiting the translucence of egg tempera, she layers, then excavates, arcs of vibrant color atop sumi ink or graphite—a technique that integrates longstanding obsessions with line, literature, and the contrary impulses toward confession and obfuscation. Her work both celebrates and critiques the transcendental aims of Abstract Expressionism, the grittiness of 1980s-era graffiti art, and the splintered pastiche of contemporary times.

Bio

Education

1990

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Northern Arizona University

Exhibitions

2003

Evasion, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

2002

Ecstasy: Mind, Body, Spirit, Orange County Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Ana, CA

Visions International, Art Center Waco, Waco, TX

National Woman’s Exhibition, Impact Artists’ Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Aesthetics 2002, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery. Lindsborg, KS

Persistence: Figure, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

Solo Exhibit, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

2001

Artist Edit, Butters Gallery, Portalnd, OR

Drawing II, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2000

New Drawings, OMNI Gallery, Portland, OR

1999

Davis Street Inaugural, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR

1998

Omni Gallery, Portland, OR

1997

Palace Gallery, Portland, OR

Residencies

2003

Dorland Mountain Arts Colony

Collections

Ambrose Law Associates, Portland

Numerous private collections

Press

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