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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.
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