We speak a language of distraction to ignore the world around us. We miss moments of Americana metaphorically reflective of our troubled and isolated psyche: the abandoned train, evening traffic on wet roads, or a sunset over a busy highway. Our true American identity resides in these moments, not in vacuous status updates or tweets. Those are merely welcome diversions used to avoid looking away from the computer screen, and out the window at the America we've created.
The American landscape can have harsh, even unsightly moments. However, those same moments often provide powerful and poetic tableaux, where our humanity is most highlighted. It is an experiential paradox, where the scenes that are often ignored or dismissed are the ones most acutely expressive of the desolation and longing we feel. Be it a herd of trucks struggling to keep warm, or school buses stranded in a flood, these vehicles become characters - anthropomorphic - representative of our own desperation for connectedness.…Read More
Solo Shows
2007 Drawn In: New Drawings by Christina Goodwin Rheault Drawing Room, Portland, ME
2005 On and Off the Highway Virginia Carten Gallery, Marblehead, MA
2004 Awake at NightSt. Andrew’s Cloister Gallery, Marblehead, MA
Selected Group Shows
2009 Annual National CompetitionBowery Gallery, New York, NY
The Big Show Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Postcards from the Edge VISUAL AIDS New York, NY
2008 Cooper Union Residency Group Show Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Richard Estes, Yvonne Jacquette, & Rackstraw Downes: The Urban Landscape Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2007 Everything but Paper Prayers: Annual AIDS Invitational Exhibit Barbara Krakow Gallery Boston, MA
The 2007 Group Show 38 Cameron Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Art as Process LynnArts, Inc. Lynn, MA
22nd Annual International Exhibition University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
New Art 2007 MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA (Juror: Raphaela Platow, then-Curator of the Brandeis Univ Rose Art Musuem)
2006 Opening Rheault Drawing Room, Portland, ME
PAINT Time Warner Gallery, LynnArts, Inc., Lynn, MA
2005 Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Juried New England Exhibition Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA
Arches Student Print Sho 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 A Night of Sight & Sound Boston University, Boston, MA
Global Warming: Environmental DisruptionTower Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
2003 Best in Show George Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA
Women in the Arts Festival St. Stephen's United Methodist Church, Marblehead, MA
1999 Marblehead Festival of the Arts Marblehead, MA
1998 Marblehead Festival of the Arts Marblehead, MA
Residencies
2008 Cooper Union Summer Residency Program
2005 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Awards
2007 Honorable Mention- MPG Contemporary New Art 2007 Prize
2006 Best in Show- PAINT juried exhibit top prize
2001 Paul Tsongas Scholar - one of five in the state of Massachusetts
Boston University - full tuition academic scholarship
Gold Key Portfolio Nominee, Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards
Projects
• Series of paintings for the Bill Hunt Scholarship Fund Auction, directed by Ken Helfman
• Illustration for Boston University 2005-2006 Calendar
• Illustrator and student representative for BU College of Fine Arts’ Fiftieth Anniversary campaign 2005
• Illustration for the Boston University Marsh Chapel Fundraising Campaign 2004
• Illustration for Hotel Commonwealth advertising campaign
• Illustration for Boston University 2003-2004 Calendar
Bibiliography
2008 Studio Visit Magazine, The Open Studios Press, First Edition
2007 Avery Yale Kamila, "Cityscapes" Maine Switch, December 4
2006 “Aftermath of Katrina in Exhibit” The Reporters, December 28, p.A&M 4
2005 Dinah Cardin “Taking her Show on the Road” North Shore Sunday June 19, p.15
2004 Diane Nolan “Going Solo” Salem Evening News, June 25, p.B1
“Night Moves” North Shore Sunday, June 20, p.13
“Christina Goodwin Exhibit to Open” Marblehead Reporter, June 24, p. 3, A&M
Kalman Zabarsky “Portrait of the Artist As a Young Woman” B.U. Bridge, February 6, p.8…Read More