Tara Good Bio

Tara Good

Artist's Biography

Born 1970 in New Jersey, USA. At the age of fifteen, Tara Good won The Congressional Award for a photo-realistic drawing that was featured in the United States Capitol Building for one year. Good went on to study at Parson’s in New York City, The California College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, and Altos De Chavon in the Dominican Republic.

As time and experience accumulated, Good broke away from photo-realism to embrace a more energetic style of painting…Abstract Expressionism. The result is her new body of work that transforms intense realism to an equally intense observation of surface.

Perhaps Good has moved not away from Realism, but within it. A pervading sense of authority accompanies the abstractions and tug at our collective memory of our modern environment. She has evolved from the macrocosm to the microcosm, focusing her lens on the skin, revealing age and lustrous tarnish.

Experimenting with various mediums has expanded Good’s ideas and it is the industrial environment that supplies this artist with the tools to create. Acrylics, glaze, tint, and mica are fertile grounds for creating a new vision on a once blank canvas. Religious icons, coupons, and clippings have a new purpose when incorporated into a painting. Further enriching the canvas are bits of text. Teasing us with their promise of familiarity, the words are obliterated by the paint, leaving so much vacant advertisement succumbing to decay. Consider also the paradigm that Good’s materials are meant to last forever, whereas her subject, what is represented, has already faded away.