recent highlights
March 2024, Girl Crush, sugar-sugar-sugarplums, wall assemblage on exhibition in the Common Gallery in Louisville, KY
March- May 2024, Mamaws are SuperHeroes!, solo-exhibition, Weber Art Gallery, Pikeville, KY
Ongoing, Portal is a new 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”.
March 2024, Girl Crush, sugar-sugar-sugarplums, wall assemblage on exhibition in the Common Gallery in Louisville, KY
March- May 2024, Mamaws are SuperHeroes!, solo-exhibition, Weber Art Gallery, Pikeville, KY
Ongoing, Portal is a new 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”.
How Will You Judge Me, coaxial cable and linen table cloth, 8min 30 seconds,
Portal, in The Only Way Thru is Through series, Lexington, KY, 2024
Portal, in The Only Way Thru is Through series, Lexington, KY, 2024
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.
I live and work in Lexington, Kentucky. 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. I am also a Professor of Art Studio and am incredibly grateful for the generous support of the College of Fine Arts, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the School of Art & Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
I live and work in Lexington, Kentucky. 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. I am also a Professor of Art Studio and am incredibly grateful for the generous support of the College of Fine Arts, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the School of Art & Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.