Laurie Goddard at White Barn Studio

PO Box 442 (mailing address)

337 Main Street

Shelburne Falls, MA

01370

phone: 413-625-8120

email: lgoddard at lauriegoddard.com, use the @ sign, please

My studio, White Barn Studio, is open by appointment, although I am here working most of the time. I always welcome visitors, world wanderers, fellow artists and art enthusiasts with no pressure except to enjoy the studio.

The studio is located between the galleries and museums in Northampton and Amherst, MA, Brattleboro, Vt and MassMoca, the Clark Museum and Williams College Art Museum in the Berkshires. Please contact me for any additional information, or to see if I happen to be away at a show or conference.

2013 shows to date:

Four Square, an invitational exhibition, Battersea, London, England

all larger works on paper, a traveling exhibition

Paradise City Arts Festival:

Northampton, MA  May 25 - 27

www.paradisecityarts.com

Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Festival

Philadelphia, PA, 

June 8-9 and Sept. 21-22

www.rittenhousesquareart.com

Westport Fine Arts Festival, Westport, CT

July 20 - 21

http://www.westportfineartsfestival.com

Powers Gallery, Acton MA  January abstract show

February 2013 I was invited to return to Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to give advanced painting workshops at 3 universities there.

Again, it was an amazing experience.......Riyadh, Jeddah and Abha workshops.

Cross cultural exchange allows for a lot of new and valuable shared information, friends and connections.

Thank you all!

Yale New Haven Hopspital recently selected several wonderful pieces for their collections.

2012 exhibitions:

Architectural Digest Home Show, Pier 94 NYC, March 22 - 25

Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA, solo show, April 3 - 30

Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Fair, Philadelphia, PA.  June 1 - 3

Armonk Outdoor Art Show, Armonk, NY Sept. 29 - 30

Paradise City Arts Festival, Northampton, MA Oct. 6 - 8 

NYC Contemporary Art Fair, NYC  Oct. 19 - 21

2011 Exhibitions:

Galatea Fine Arts, Boston, MA  "New England Collective", group show curated by Joanne Mattera  August 4 - 28

Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, ME   July 27 - August 20,  solo show

Saratoga Springs Art Festival, Saratoga Springs, NY   August 20 - 21

Armonk Outdoor Art Show, Armonk, NY    September 23 - 25

Paradise City Arts Festival, Northampton, MA   Oct. 8 - 10  

Bethesda Row Fine Arts Festival, Bethesda, MD    Oct. 15 - 16

Western New England University Art Gallery, Springfield, MA; Oct. 9 - Nov. 10  

Paradise City Arts Festival, Marlboro, MA,   November 18 - 20

Artist Statement:

Lyrical Abstraction
This body of abstract landscapes comprises reflections of Italy, Japan the Middle East and Western Massachusetts as well as distillations of their cultures. My favorite materials are encaustics, water based paints and varnishes, oxidized semi-precious leaf and charcoal on both hardboard panels and watercolor paper. The result can be seen as a cool amalgam of both a moment or a lifetime. This process, the addition and subtraction of color and the manipulation of the leaf through patination, pushes the limits of water based mediums, and forces their compatibility with metals. Through this tension and transformation the work becomes a travelogue of modern and antique imagery. The Asian influence on my work comes from study of Japanese architecture and calligraphy. The Italian influence is from a few wonderful years living in Milan, and subsequent return visits.

I have been fortunate to have been invited by our government to teach abstract art in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to women artists in three locations, both in 2009 and 2013. This has been a transformational adventure and the women are very excited about these exhilarating workshops.

Western Massachusetts, where I now live, provides inspiration in the form of ever changing beauty and urgency. Now that I have traveled a bit in the Middle East - Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia - the desert, the pace and rhythms of the Berber and Bedouin, the colors and particularly the music are influencing my work in new ways. In my attempt to reveal underlying structures and reconnect eras, I have come to realize that these references are wonderfully compatible.

I am influenced by the great Modernists and the Abstract Expressionists, as well as sublime music and poetry. Gesture, serenity, memory, elegance and the thrill of the hunt are my main motives in painting. I am a process oriented artist, using materials at hand in new and unusal ways.

Degree:
1977, BFA Printmaking Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
studied with Leonard Nelson, Charles Fallon, Chen Lok Lee, Bill Walton, Thomas Chimes - senior advisor.

Published :
The Flag Book, by Kit Hinrichs, Delphine Hirasuna, Chronicle Books
Gilding, Lark Books

Studio Visit, Volumes Two, Six, Nine, Ten and Twelve
Open Studios Press, Boston

Collections:
In the private collections of Eli Lily Corp., Claude Picasso, Nadine Gordon Lee, Ven. Piyatassi Bhikkhu, Sargent Shriver, Emerson College, Donna Karan, Raymond S. Hartman, Dwight Emanuelson, Ms. Renee Rushnawitz, Gwenn Carr, Gregory Maguire, Amherst College, Mme. Lavinia Samuel, the Consulate of the Netherlands, Fieldpoint Private Bank.
Art in the Embassies, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Cameroon.
Permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Exhibition History:

2010
Galatea Fine Art, Boston
solo show, Nov.

2009
curated group show, Vivid Wonders of a Startled Imagination;

Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA,  June

CCNS annual invitational show, Rowayton, CT,  July

solo show, Blue Stone Gallery, Milford, PA, October

solo show, Hewar Gallery, Kingdom Tower, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2008
Redmondbennett Gallery, Dublin, NH, group show

Meyer Gallery, Park City, Utah, 2 person show

Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, MA, solo show

Kebanu Gallery, Bend, OR, solo show

Bruce Museum Fine Art Show, Greenwich,CT

Wunderarts Small 2008 invitational show, Amherst, MA

2007
Kebanu Gallery - Bend, OR

The Brigham Galleries - Nantucket, MA

Katie Gingrass Gallery - Milwaukee, WI

Hoadley Gallery - Lenox, MA

Lyons View Gallery - Knoxville, TN

Mimosa - Saratoga Springs, NY

Wunderarts, Amherst, MA;

2006

Hoadley Gallery, Lenox MA, solo show
Guilford Art Show, Guilford CT.
Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet MA. 2 person show


2005

John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Ct
The Martin Gallery, Charleston, SC
Kebanu, Bend OR - solo show
Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, MA - solo show
Shaw-Cramer Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA
The Brigham Galleries, Nantucket, MA

2004

Kebanu, Bend, OR - solo show
Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Wave Gallery, New Haven, CT. - solo show
Milward Farrell Fine Art, Madison, WI

2003

Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt. solo show

2002

Running Ridge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM - solo show
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vt. group show