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Cloud by Day, Fire by Night

  
New Work by Diane Grace Goodman

"Guide"      Oil on Canvas with textile construction and photomontage (executed manually)     42"H x 25"W x 4"D

"Guide"      Detail

"Shroud" (from the series, Searching for Lost Ones)     Oil on canvas with textile construction and photomontage (executed manually)     32" H x 20" W x 3" D

"Shroud"     Detail

"Procession"     (from the series, Searching for Lost Ones)     Oil on canvas with mixed fiber embroidery and photomontage (executed manually)     36"H x 21"W x 2" D

"Procession"     Detail

"Keriah"     (from the series, Searching for Lost Ones)     Oil on canvas with textile construction and photomontage (executed manually)     36"H x 21" W x 3" D

"Keriah"     Detail     [Keriah is the ritual act of tearing garments upon learning that a loved one has died.]

"Dark Rays"     Oil on canvas with textile construction and photomontage (executed manually)     18" x 25"W x 4"D

"Dark Rays"     Detail

Study for "Guide"     Oil on canvas with gauze and photomontage (executed manually)     32"H x 20"W x 3"D

Study for "Guide"     Detail

"Cloud by Day, Fire by Night" (Diptych)     Oil on canvas with mixed fiber embroidery     16"H x 46"W x 3"D

"Cloud by Day"      Detail (Diptych)      Oil on canvas with mixed fiber embroidery      16"H x 24"W x 3"D

"Fire by Night"      Detail (Diptych)      Oil on canvas with mixed fiber embroidery      15"H x 24"W x 3"D

"Study for a Portrait of a Prophet"      Oil on Canvas with textile construction and photomontage (executed manually)      33"H x 26"W x 3.5"D

"Study for a Portrait of a Prophet"     Detail 

   
Artist's Statement:
 
Over the past few years, I have been developing a body of work that employs photographic imagery as metaphors for enduring questions about identity and responsibility. In this series, the manually executed photomontages began with photojournalists' images of World War II. These recontextualized and substantially altered historical references invite inquiry on several planes: political, social, interpersonal and psychodynamic. The series, Searching for Lost Ones, suggests that our responses to loss -- historical and contemporary, remembered and here-and-now, narrative and emotional -- are organically related, congruent, and affectively immediate. Recently, these images of loss and longing have emerged as metaphors for the dynamics that make expression a necessity for the artist. l hope viewers are intrigued by such formal considerations as the relationships of colors and shapes, movement and direction, quality of textures, light and shadow, and the interplay of imagery.

Diane Grace Goodman      2001