Jeanie Gooden is an American painter whose work is deeply influenced by architecture and culture. Gooden lives between the United States and Central Mexico.
Gooden’s life has been a process of creating with her earliest appreciation for art centered in music. Later the creative process moved her to the visual arts developing art partnerships for a fine art museum. Ultimately, a move to Mexico turned her focus to painting. For more than twenty years her paintings have been created in the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
Gooden’s work is non-representational mixed media, which is often large in scale. Faithful to her truth that fear has no place in her creative process, Gooden continuously seeks new materials and techniques.
In recent years, the surfaces have become very layered using a mix of paint, pigments, paper, textiles, metal, nails and hand stitching on canvas. Materials vary within a body of work offering both smooth and deeply textured paintings.
Fall 2024, jeanie is releasing an art book about seeing common things in uncommon ways and the influence of seeing life deeply. Gooden’s creative process unfolds in 240 pages of full color images of photographs and paintings. The book is in both English Spanish.
findings: translations
hallazgos: traducciones
To order go to Book on this website
From jeanie:
I once vowed not to work with mixed media only to become fascinated by layering many materials. Working in Mexico has deeply influenced my creative process.
While Mexico’s innovation is stunning, the juxtaposition of modern alongside the simple and more resourceful aspects of the culture is what interests me most. Years of seeing things repurposed introduced materials into my paintings that are often rustic and raw. My paintings are often described as somewhat sculptural with both softness and structure. To use a variety of materials to create a cohesive surface is an ongoing challenge.
Creating beautiful paintings is not as important to me as creating paintings that interest and engage the viewer.
Surprise is an element of creating for both the artist and the person seeing the finished work. As long as my work surprises me, that is the beauty. For me, a painting is considered finished when someone connects with it.
