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Alison Goodwin’s iridescent, bold, and vibrant paintings have delivered a playful exuberance and deep reverence to the Maine art world for 30 years. Growing up on the southern Maine coast and now living in Portland and Rockland, Goodwin is influenced by Hundertwasser, Klimt, Matisse and Calder. Consistently, her work is characterized by saturated, turbulent color and skewed perspectives in her compositions of unruly landscapes, expressive interiors, and kinetic villages.
Goodwin has also explored several iterations of fishermen saints. Living among fishermen most of her life, she watches them work from her front porch or kayak. Her portraits canonize them in icons of Maine’s ragged bounty. Goodwin’s paintings show gratitude for the harvesters of the sea and their role in developing our relationship with the natural world.
Each of her paintings is built on layers of patterns and geometric designs which build to create larger constructive elements. Goodwin often explores these elements in graphic charcoal drawings and abstract paintings that amplify these characteristics. Her abstract work thus builds new forms which transfer to successive cycles of paintings.
Alison Goodwin is represented in Maine by Greenhut Galleries and will have a solo exhibition in September 2023
Alison Goodwin
Born: Montreal, Canada, 1959
EDUCATION
Portland School of Art, 1984
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 1977-81
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Til, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2021 Tradition and Generation, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2019 Ragged Bounty, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2017 Solo show Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2015 Re-Entry, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2009 Leave Your Pebbles in the Sand, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2007 Whose Woods These Are, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2003 Still Living with the Fishermen, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2003 McGowan Gallery, Concord, NH
2003 The Office of Governor James H. Douglas, Montpelier, VT
2002 JRS Gallery, Providence, RI
2001 In Between Living and Dreaming, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2000 From Apples to Islands, Page-Waterman Gallery, Wellesley, MA
1999 Chairs, Pears, Houses & Trees, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
1999 Go In and Out the Window, McGowan Gallery, Concord, NH
1998 Barre Opera House, Barre, VT
1997 Route 2 East, Route 2 West, Furchgott-Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
1996 Fruits of Life, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
1992 Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
1991 Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
1989 Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Greenhut Galleries Annual Holiday Exhibition, 1990 to present
Greenhut Galleries, Biennial Portland Show, Portland, ME 2002 to present
Greenhut Galleries, Go Figure!, Portland, ME 2013
Greenhut Galleries 25th Anniversary Show, Portland, ME 2002
Furchgott-Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT, 1994 - 1999
Annual Holiday Exhibition, Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1998
Woodstock Gallery of Art, Woodstock, VT, 1993
Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield, VT, 1993
Two-Woman Exhibit, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME, 1993
West End Gallery, Portland, ME, 1989
COLLECTIONS
Bank of New Hampshire, Rochester, NH
Grown Brothers Harriman & Company, Boston, MA
Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT
Grand Summit at Killington, Killington, VT
Jordan Grand Summit Hotel, Bethel, ME
Nelson, Kinder & Mosseau, Manchester, VT
Pierce Atwood, Portland, ME
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Ma
National Semiconductor, Portland, ME