The Gifting, a three day performance during Art in Odd Places, 14th st. Manhattan, October 18, 19, 20, 2024
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2024: CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek. Curatorial Manager: Valentina Zamora. Producer: Robin Schatell. Founder & Director: Ed Woodham. artinoddplaces.org
Instagram @ArtinOddPlaces
Official festival hashtag. #AIOPCare
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2024: CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek. Curatorial Manager: Valentina Zamora. Producer: Robin Schatell. Founder & Director: Ed Woodham. artinoddplaces.org
Instagram @ArtinOddPlaces
Official festival hashtag. #AIOPCare
Other recent highlights
2.0 Kinds of Funny, DAAP Galleries, Cincinnatti, OH
CAC, Contemporary Art Center, Performance Response mini-festival, works in response to Tai Shandi’s solo-exhibition, selected, Cincinnati, OH
familiar, solo-exhibition, Weber Art Gallery, Pikeville, KY
Portal is a performance art space in the basement and backyard of Rae Goodwin’s home. Events occur regularly, by invitation only. Portals are entrances to spaces/places, organs/veins, realities of all kinds. The word itself connects body and architecture, entrances and experiences, realities of the visible and the metaphysical.
The first series of performance events are titled “The Only Way Thru is Through” 2024
January with works by Cooper Gibson, Matt Gibson, and Rae Goodwin
February with works by Hearty White and Rae Goodwin
March with works by Emily Bivens and Cooper Gibson
May with works by Cooper Gibson, and Rae Goodwin
June with works by Rebecca Dundon, Paul Rodgers, Cooper Gibson, and J.T. Dockery
September with works by Rae Goodwin and Sparklezilla
November with work by Anya Liftig
In my art practice I work with intimacy, risk and therefor vulnerability as my main material. I am also deeply concerned with maternal ancestry as it influences the construction of identity, assumptions of strength and notions of agency. Individual Grandmothers in our society, after a whole life they are seen thru the lens of their role or perceptions of their archetype and vastly undervalued. When I ask people about their own grandmothers many confess they do not know her first name, how she grew up, nor her favorite music. Many people do not wonder about her until after she has passed. The absence in presence and presence in absence of this grandmother figure in the social lives of families, leads me to think about relationships, relationality and vulnerability in my work. Often this is conveyed through archetypal or sentimental gestures, materials and interactions between myself and the viewer/participant.
My art has been exhibited widely and performed at/with the Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, La Pocha Nostra, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, LIVESTOCK in Dublin, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and many other venues. I curate and organize a performance art experience called Portal. I earned an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University.
My art has been exhibited widely and performed at/with the Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, La Pocha Nostra, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, LIVESTOCK in Dublin, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and many other venues. I curate and organize a performance art experience called Portal. I earned an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University.
