kathy goodell

march 21 - april 19, 2026

I work looking down into an imagined garden of the mind, the architecture of the psyche. The paintings are entirely improvisational, after the first mark is put down it calls for the next move. A relationship begins! I am interested in opposites, in unlikely alliances. I am not trying to depict anything I already know about; the painting process replicates I my internal life of questioning. I think of painting as a way to say contradictory things and to span chasms of information, akin to how might think about poetry or jazz, two of my great loves. The final surface one sees must hold its distinction so that previous incarnations from under the top skin can be revealed through both the destructive and additive processes, bypassing logic. It’s my way of saying… 
…“I’m here! I exist!” — For now…