art prize 2011 grand rapids michigan artprize Kathy Goodell Artist bio Kathy Goodell, an American artist, was born in San Francisco, California. She attended The San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a BFA and MFA degree in sculpture. She became known in California for her delicate, constructed sculptures, often suspended from the ceiling and incorporating such materials as copper, glass, fabric and salt crystals. Kathy Goodell's present work spans multiple forms with primary focus on sculpture and drawing. In 1983 Goodell moved to New York City where she continued to develop her sculpture and drawings. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally having had solo exhibitions in San Francisco, New York, and Boston, and has been included in numerous museum exhibitons. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, two New York Foundation for the Arts Grants, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a Phelan Award, a Fulbright Fellowship and a California Commission for the Art Grant. She currently teaches at Suny New Paltz, NY. About the work Title: Mesmer Eyes...A Requiem Art form: 2-D, 3-D, Internet / Interactive Medium: ink, yupo paper, glass and acrylic lenses, clear plastic line Year created: 2011 Description of work: Mesmer Eyes.. A Requiem, occupies both real space and space of the imagination. It manipulates optical phenomena, light, transparency, and the oscillating tension between matter and illusion. Mesmer Eyes.. A Requiem is composed of 5460 oval shaped drawings, ink on yupo paper, measuring, H-78” W- 216.5” and D, varying depth (between 64” and 88”). The 18.5’ width of the piece creates a panoramic accumulation of diversities and similarities. There is a 5 foot corridor between the drawing and the 20 optical lenses, allowing the viewer to see the drawing either through the lenses or apart from them. The movement of the lenses, proximity of the viewers to each other, allows for chance occurrences, both between the viewer’s faces and their changing relationship to the lenses and drawings. The lenses introduce a complex set of contradictions between inside and out, between matter-of-fact size and sudden indeterminate size, between surface and illusion, distortion and clarity. Height: 8 feet Width: 18 feet Depth: 7 feet

The Ruskin Degree Show Action in Air and Landing is the final exhibition of work by all sixteen third-year students at the Ruskin. Organized and curated annually as part of our examination in Fine Art, the degree show is the most celebrated and significant exhibition of the year for both the Ruskin and the University of Oxford. The building used for the degree show functions throughout the rest of the year as a mix of studios, seminar rooms, offices and workshops. Each year, in a ‘spring clean’ of epic proportions, these spaces are emptied and purged of the messy accumulations of an art school. All of the art exhibited is new work, inevitably conceived with the various moods and demands of the building in mind. While some pieces may seem more site specific than others, the location and installation of all the work has been considered and discussed amongst ourselves over a period of time – and has remained intentionally flexible right up until the last moment.