About Me
{ seek and you will find }
Music, words, figures, botanical symbolism, spiritual concepts and emotions often work together to inspire the visual work I create. I tend to paint ‘in a minor key’—reflecting both brokenness and hope.
There is always more going on in my work than I consciously intend when I begin. There is always something deeper, and if I keep looking, it becomes clearer. Human imagery, quotes, and meanings all present themselves. I keep a wide variety of paint, pencils, pastels, charcoal and scraps of anything I find interesting out and available for me to use at any time, as I try to respond to my inner thoughts and to the medium I am working with. I make what I am discovering more tangible as what it wants to become starts to appear—striking a balance between what is seen and what is obscured, listening for the words that need to be written or the figure that wants to be revealed.
I like drawing, I like words, and I like the way colors play with each other. I like things that are sublime and things that are balanced but not rigid, and the juxtaposition of realism and abstraction, clarity and ambiguity. I love things that are not contrived, and I love being led into mystery and finding out what will come of it, and I hope that others experience at least a small bit of that in my work.
Bio
Chrys Corn Goodman’s family has been in Western North Carolina since the 1700s, but she grew up in the Bay Area of Northern California and attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and California State University Hayward (now Cal State East Bay) where she studied under Corban LePell and graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art, cum laude. Through LePell’s mentorship, her affinity for realism morphed into a love of figurative abstraction and responding to the work as it evolves, regularly incorporating words or lyrics which so often suggest the meaning behind each piece.
In more recent years, she was introduced to cold wax medium and subsequently to encaustic, which changed the direction of her paintings to include more embedded found objects and gold leaf. Whether primarily oil, encaustic or acrylic, her mixed media works include a balance of drawing, painting and scraping, and combines both representational and abstract elements.
She takes inspiration from using differing mediums and found objects, listening to songwriters, and contemplating memories and emotional and spiritual truths.
Today, she has returned to the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina where she lives and works. She is a founding member of the Autonomous Art Collective, and her other membership affiliations have included International Encaustic Artists, River Arts District Artists, and Christos Collective. She has exhibited in shows in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, Montana, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Massachusetts, India, and Ireland, and her work is in several private collections.
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Bio
Chrys Corn Goodman grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco and California State University Hayward (now Cal State East Bay) where she studied under Corban LePell and graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art, cum laude. Through LePell’s mentorship, her affinity for realism morphed into a love of figurative abstraction and responding to the work as it evolves, regularly incorporating words or lyrics which so often suggest the meaning behind each piece.
In more recent years, she was introduced to cold wax medium and subsequently to encaustic, which changed the direction of her paintings to include more embedded found objects and gold leaf. Whether primarily oil, encaustic or acrylic, her mixed media works include a balance of drawing, painting and scraping, and combines both representational and abstract elements.
She was also fortunate enough to be mentored in stained glass by Marty Mitchell and Rachel Ward who elevate the craft of glass to an art form.
She takes inspiration from using differing mediums, listening to songwriters, and contemplating memories and emotional and spiritual truths.
Today, she lives and works in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and is currently represented by the Philip DeAngelo Gallery in Asheville’s River Arts District. She is a founding member of the Autonomous Art Collective, and her other membership affiliations have included International Encaustic Artists, River Arts District Association and Christos. She has exhibited in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Colorado, Montana, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Massachusetts, India, and Ireland, and her work is in several private collections.
