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The Berding Memorandum
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, October 15 – November , 2016. Contains essay by Dick Goody and interview with the artist.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Since the 1980s, the most challenging aspect of contemporary abstract painting has been to make something that we never anticipated seeing before, which does not resemble another’s visual abstract language. Thomas Berding’s uniquely distinct paintings overcome this challenge with brio and inventiveness
The Flowers Of Insomnia & other photographs: a retrospective by Rob Kangas
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, January 9 - February 22, 2004. Contains essay by Dick Goody and interview with the artist.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: The Flowers of Insomnia Series, Kangas's panoramic photographs, which he began in the late 1980s, are passages. As we read them, our eyes travel across the time and space of the photograph, recording the surface, with its geometry and abstractions, in a way that is different from the perception of a single iconic image. It is this effect, this passage, which is not unlike the "passage effect" in Duchamp's paintings Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 or The Passage from the Virgin to the Bride (both 1912), that makes these works so unusual and unique
Terrestial Celestial
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, March 3 – April 9, 2017. Contains essay by Dick Goody.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: The traces left by Cody VanderKaay’s oeuvre do not so much reach backward to an initial idea; rather the lineage beams forward into subsequent potentialities. Therefore, to understand his work is to see it as an expanding network
Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, January 14 – April 1, 2012. Contains essay by Dick Goody.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Central to the practice of the painters in this exhibition is the expansion of the imaginary as the primary source of their compositions, and, as such, their practice is rooted in invention and the mind’s eye
Domestified Angst : Second Recording
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, October 18-November 23, 2008. Contains essay by Dick Goody and interview with the artist.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: To say that Johnson’s identity is wrapped up in himself, that is, in his image, is an idiotic aphorism. Yet, the image of his face is often present in his work. His self-depictions channel the simulacra of a saccharine TV announcer. The face becomes a target at which to aim scorn. If it is self-flagellation, it also serves as a signifier of Johnson’s tortured layered identities. However, at the same time, it is symbolic of his personal thick-skinned resilience, survival and scorn: the distorted idiotic face taunts, as if the artist is mocking his personal anxieties stirred up by concerns over the authenticity of his own warped identity
Interior particular [Jane Lackey] / essay: Dick Goody
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at Meadow Brook Art Gallery 22 November-21 December 2003.
Includes bibliographical references. Includes a selected biography and bibliography of Jane Lackey
The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, January 12 – March 31, 2013. Contains essay by Dick Goody.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: This exhibition explores the work of international contemporary artists (temporarily or permanently) fixated with portraiture. It considers: the sitter (object), the artist (depicter) and the viewer
(subject). By degrees, these three things are inextricably linked; but it is the artist and the object that she or he renders that takes precedence in the sense that the viewer’s role is not active in the making of the work
Commonwealth
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, January 16 – April 3, 2016. Contains essay by Dick Goody.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Carlos Rolón was born in Chicago of Puerto Rican parents in 1970, and the tendency has been to alight upon this fact as the single denominating characteristic of his work – like a headlining brand, if you will – but this identification does not fully capture the artist’s almost psychic ability to synthesize and fuse genres from a multitude of extant cultural sources. The potentiality, particularity and lushness of the subject matter he employs are drawn from a variety of experiences and places
Nostalgia & Outrage
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, January 13 – March 24, 2024. Contains essay by Dick Goody.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: “Nostalgia and outrage” is a state of mind. On the one hand, we long to bask in the memories of a gilded childhood. On the other, we see ourselves on a threshold, walking toward an unknowable, often alarming future. But, really, in all of this, how far do we ever stray from the path of our childhood? As Aristotle said: “Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the foundation of the man.
Landscape, Utility and Psychology – Souvenirs of Consequence: The Paintings of James Stephens
No full textCatalog of an exhibition held at the Oakland University Art Gallery, 2007. Contains essay by Dick Goody.Excerpt from essay by Dick Goody: The work of James Stephens throughout the eighties was that of an artist, a gay man existing (and painting about that existence) in the urban Midwest, specifically in Detroit, a divided city on the threshold of post-industrialization – in other words, the result of being a minority and living a hand-to-mouth existence in a declining city
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