Amy Goodwin: art

art

some paint I was working with today in the studio

Western Spaghetti

I love Rex Ray's work and was happy to see this video on dearada

Robert Rauschenberg died May 12, 2008.
He was 82.

illuminated painting

Pink Mirror
enamel on panel
48x48"
2002

A Warm Reception
graphite on paper
14x18"

I like how any single gem is a whole world in itself.

floating

Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art Curated by Nick Capasso An installation of 75 laser cut acrylic mirrors configured in a loop-de-loop installation

It took 2 years to build this first production version of the Flatpak House. I will post images as we set up home in our new digs.

In March 07 I traveled to Shezhen, China to sort out production for a series of paintings. The factory painters were mostly young and all talented. Like 1980's art students they wore concert t-shirts, took frequent smoke breaks, and played alternative music very loud from a tinny CD player. All of the painters were either friends or relatives of one another. The factories themselves looked less warehouse and more apartment building. The office of the factory I visited had not only wall to wall carpeting but wall to ceiling. It was a plush environment. The Da Fen district, where all of the oil painting factories reside, is marked by a giant, (very communist) statue of a hand holding a paintbrush. Surreal doesn't quite express the region. The images shown do not depict the artwork I was working on, but rather, the artwork these factories all too often produce.