By The Times-Ledger
Goodell, a former West Coast artist now living in Manhattan, uses glass, wood, copper, steel, fabric, and magnifying lenses to create both on-the-floor and suspended sculptures. She includes works on paper – collages relating to the ideas conveyed by her sculptures.
The sculptures are “ethereal in their implication of a space that is inhabited by the unseen – matter which looks to have left its skeletal structure for a new form,” Arts magazine critic Peggy Cyphers said of Goodell's work. “There is a complex honesty that tugs at the viewer with a gut-felt honesty.”
Goodell focuses on, in her words, “the interrelationships between sculpture and the body's vitality and vulnerability.”
In one work, a hand-colored red, silk sack is magnified through a large lens. In another, honey in a glass vessel crystallizes in the cold but softens in a warm light. in the work, “In the Beginning,” a singular piece becomes two, and reveals a dark vortex at the center.
Goodell has had several one-person and group exhibits, including recently at the Willoughby Sharp gallery in Manhattan and the Klienert James Art Center in Woodstock. She has received awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the arts. Goodell now teaches studio art at State University of New York at New Paltz and at the School of Visual arts in Manhattan.
For more information on the current exhibit, call 718-997-ARTS.
