Michelle Myers Goodman Artwork Details

 

 

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In the expressive painting of Michelle Myers Goodman the human body is the starting point for an exploration of, frequently disturbing, states of mind. She is aggressive in her use of materials and the surfaces of her images are heavily worked to convey the energy and emotion she feels during the creative process. Paint is applied thickly, pushed, pulled and scrapped away. Lines that define form also have an expressive life entirely of their own. Through this painterly treatment she creates psychological tension, building upon unsettling contradictions that also often exist between her works´ titles and subjects. For instance, in ´Woman In Mourning´ she has used cheerful hues of green and pink, while the comforting nostalgia conjured by the title of her work ´Milk and Cookies´ is dealt a perverse and savage blow by the illustration instead, of a connection to the novel A Clockwork Orange. Sometimes melancholic, at others grotesque, the paintings frequently have the power to haunt.