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Dryden Goodwin

http://www.drydengoodwin.com

 

statement

"…Over the last ten years Dryden Goodwin’s art has been defined by an increasingly rich dialogue between drawing, photography and film.

In this work he has consistently focused on the human figure and the portrait form, the resulting work offering a speculative vision that considers the process of looking and representing, both in relation to what is experienced and what is seen.

That this speculation is always fluid, that no one act of representation, no one point of description, can ever be finally resolved in time, is also the idea which drives the shifting relationships between different media and the layered nature of Goodwin’s work.

Often grounded in an experience of the city, Goodwin wrestles with the continually changing nature of our contact with the people around us, both the well known – family and friends – and the anonymous, the strangers we pass on the street.

His work marks an intense curiosity, a desire to know, and yet it is always alive with ambiguities about what the act of making work might reveal or obscure."

- David Chandler (from his introduction to ‘Cast’ a monograph published by Steidl and Photoworks in 2009)


Biography

Solo exhibitions include Cast (Photographer's Gallery, London, 2008 and Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009); Flight (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2006 and Feldman Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2007); Sustained Endeavour: Portrait of Sir Steve Redgrave, (National Portrait Gallery, 2006); Draw In/Draw Out (New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2004); Dilate (Manchester Art Gallery, 2003); Closer (Art Now,Tate Britain, 2002).

Group shows include London Calling (Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2009 & Art Issue Projects, Beijing, China, 2009); Global Cities (Tate Modern, 2007); Strangers with Angelic Faces (Akbank, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006); Cross Town Traffic (Apeejay New Media Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2005); Clandestine (50th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2003); A Century of Artists Film in Britain (Tate Britain, London, 2003). Works in public collections include The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Arts Council of England and The National Portrait Gallery, London.

Represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

Dryden Goodwin’s Linear, commissioned by Art on the Underground, consisting of pencil and video portraits of staff from the Jubilee line will be present across the Jubilee line from Autumn 2009 continuing to Autumn 2010.

 

related links

http://www.stephenfriedman.com/index.php?pid=11&aid=8

http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/Dryden-Goodwin

http://www.lumeneclipse.com/gallery/32/goodwin/

http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2005/atv_d_goodwin/

http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2005/flight_inst/

http://www.drydengoodwin.com/selrev.htm

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