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Betty Roodish Goodwin, CM RCA (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist who expressed the complexity of human experience through her work.

Betty Goodwin
Born
Betty Roodish

(1923-03-19)March 19, 1923
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DiedDecember 1, 2008(2008-12-01) (aged 85)
Montreal, Quebec
SpouseMartin Goodwin

Early life


Goodwin was born in Montreal, the only child of Romanian immigrants Clare Edith and Abraham Roodish.[1] She enjoyed painting and drawing as a child, and was encouraged by her mother to pursue art. Goodwin's father, a factory owner in Montreal, died when she was nine. After graduating from high school, she studied design at Valentine's Commercial School of Art in Montreal.[1]


Career


In her work, Goodwin used a variety of media, including collage, sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing, assemblage and etchings. Her subject matter almost always revolves around the human form and deals with it in a highly emotional way.[2] Many of her ideas came from clusters of photographs, objects or drawings on the walls in her studio. She also used the "germ" of ideas that are left after being erased from a work.[2] Goodwin launched her career as a painter and printmaker in the late 1940s. During the 1950s and 60s Goodwin created still life paintings. She also depicted scenes of Montreal's Jewish Community.[1]

In 1968, she enrolled in an etching class with Yves Gaucher at Sir George Williams University in Montreal.[2] It was there where she began working with found objects and clothing and how they held traces of life, in her prints, which brought her international attention.[3] Dissatisfied with her work, she destroyed most of it and in 1968 she limited herself to drawing.[2] From 1972 to 1974, she created a series of wall hangings entitled Tarpaulin , which she reworked to shape into sculptures and collages.

Over a period of six years beginning in 1982, Goodwin explored the human form in her drawing series Swimmers, a project which used graphite, oil pastels and charcoal on translucent Mylar. The large-scale drawings depict solitary floating or sinking bodies, suspended in space. In 1986, to show the interaction of human figures she created her series Carbon using charcoal and wax for her drawings.[4] Two more series followed: La mémoire du corps (1990–1995) and Nerves (1993–1995).[4]

She died in December 2008 in Montreal.


Personal


She was married to Martin Goodwin, a civil engineer (d. 2008). Their son Paul died at 30 of a drug overdose.[2]


Selected exhibitions


Solo exhibitions[5]

Group exhibitions[5]


Notable artworks



Selected collections


Her work is represented in many public collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario,[6] the National Gallery of Canada,[7] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,[7] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,[7] the city of Burnaby art collection,[8] and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.[9]


Honours



References


  1. Pelham, Zachary. "Mundane Secrets". artseditor.com. ArtsEditor. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  2. Johnson, Brian D. "Body Language." Maclean's Vol. 111, no. 48 (Nov. 30, 1998): 88-89.
  3. "Betty Goodwin at Barbara Edwards Contemporary." Betty Goodwin at Barbara Edwards Contemporary. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017.
  4. "Betty Goodwin". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  5. "Betty Roodish Goodwin Biography". Artnet.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  6. "Collection". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  7. "Artefacts Canada". Canadian Heritage Information Network. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  8. Cane, Jennifer; van Eijnsbergen, Ellen (2017). The Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting. Burnaby: Burnaby Art Gallery. pp. 64–65. ISBN 9781927364239.
  9. "Canadian Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  10. "Prizes". Canada Council. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  11. "Betty Goodwin". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  12. "Multidisciplinary artist Betty Goodwin dies at 85". www.cbc.ca. CBC. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  13. "Betty Goodwin - Women Artists in Canada - Celebrating Women's Achievements". Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  14. "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.

Further reading




  1. "Worldwide Books: Artist Results for Goodwin, Betty." Worldwide Books: Artist Results for Goodwin, Betty. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

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Betty Goodwin (19 mars 1923 à Montréal - 1er décembre 2008 à Montréal) est une dessinatrice, une sculptrice et une peintre canadienne. Elle est considérée comme l'une des meilleures représentantes de l'art contemporain canadien. Le thème qu'elle a le plus exploré est le deuil[1].


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