Lavish Horn
Ruettimann Contemporary, Zurich, 5-28 June 2022, with Lisa Biedlingmaier and Una Szeemann With LAVISH HORN, Ruettimann Contemporary brings together three female artists who reflect on the topic of the continuous circle of life and death, the present, and the past. Lisa Biedlingmaier, Clare Goodwin, and Una Szeemann each explore the feelings and sensations bygone days may … Read more
Ceramic Whispers
Publication A catalogue with recent ceramic works, Concept and Layout by LOKAL 14, Michael Nitch. Edited in collaboration with Lullin + Ferrari Gallery 2022
April, April – The Abundance of Possibilites
Lullin + Ferrari Gallery, Zurich, 9 April – 7 Mai 2022, with Mirjam Blanka Inauen The first spring variation features works by Clare Goodwin and Mirjam Blanka Inauen. Common to the works is an interest in abstraction, colour balance and the use of unusual image carriers, on the one hand ceramics, on the other wrapping … Read more
Concrete! Four Concepts
Kunsthaus Zofingen, 19.2.-10.4.2022 The exhibition Concrete! Four Concepts shows the different approaches in Concrete Art. But what is Concrete Art? How has it developed since its emergence in the 1930s and its flowering in the 1950s? How do young contemporary artists deal with constructive concrete art? The starting point of the exhibition are works by … Read more
Solo Presentation Multiple Art
Zurich, schauraum multiple art, 17.3.-14.4.2022 For this special collaboration with the schauraum multipleart, Clare Goodwin made a new ceramic wall piece. It comprises over 400 individual hand-cut and glazed ceramic ‘whispers’ – baked slices of painterly forms – into a single wall work. In this new work, she refers to compositions of classical modern art, including … Read more
Flip Flop
Kantonsschule Bühlrain, Winterthur, 2020 Clare Goodwins bevorzugtes Medium ist die Malerei, wobei sie sich aktuell mit der Kombination und Überlagerung von zwei malerisch autonomen Bildebenen in ein und demselben Gemälde beschäftigt. Für die Kantonsschule Büelrain übersetzte sie ihre zweidimensionale Auseinandersetzung in eine räumliche Situation und erweiterte sie zusätzlich um ein kinetisches Moment. Fünf unregelmässige Fünf … Read more
Kunst in Dahindens Villa / Art in Dahinden’s Villa
Hochparterre, Roderick Hönig, 16.9.2019 English / scroll down for german: Justus’ Dahinden’s own home from 1971 in Zurich provides the impetus for “Open Curtain”. For the art project, artist Clare Goodwin has painted over architectural photos of the villa and is exhibiting them inside. The architect Justus Dahinden achieved success with his sculptural buildings of … Read more
Erzählerische Hard-Edge-Malerei / Narrative Hard-Edge-Painting
Kunstbulletin 3/2016 von Marié van Niekerk Clare Goodwin became known for her works in the style of hard-edge painting. Precise structures and clearly delineated areas of colour dominate her paintings. But the British artist, who lives in Zurich, links her abstract paintings closely to a view of social reality. In her exhibition ‘Constructive Nostalgia’ at … Read more
Constructive Nostalgia
Centre Pasquart, Bienne, 31.1.-1.4.2016 Solo show Clare Goodwin Curated by Felicity Lunn Clare Goodwin’s paintings present formally precise, hard-edge compositions, reduced to line, shapes and patterning. Her habit of titling the works with English names common in the past introduces humour and intimacy into the usually austere realm of geometric abstraction. The paintings are thereby … Read more
Constructive Nostalgia
Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2016 Autoren / Authors: Rebecca Geldard, Felicity Lunn, Daniel Morgenthaler, Herausgeber: Kunsthaus Pasquart,Verlag: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2016Hardcover. Sprachen / Languages: dt/fr/engISBN: 978-3-903004-78-8 Clare Goodwin’s paintings—reduced as they are to lines, shapes, and patterns—are formally precise, hard-edge compositions. Entitling the works with English names that were commonplace in the past instils the … Read more