The Goddard Center Current Exhibition
 

Rob Vander Zee

February 1 - March 9, 2012

Virginia based artist Rob Vander Zee paints fantastic worlds filled with imagined plants and mutant human-like creatures. He uses a complex layering system of oil glazes to achieve surfaces that offer both depth and luminosity. His work expresses his fascination with how science is reshaping life on Earth. He majored in both painting and drawing at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and went on to obtain his M.F.A. from Michigan State University. He studied with Larry Blovits, a painter who taught Old Master’s techniques in oil painting. Vander Zee was influenced by 17th century Flemish still life, and by figural paintings of the 1980’s.

Tracy Jarmon

December 22, 2011 - March 9, 2012

New Orleans’s artist Tracy Jarmon incorporates religion and spiritual symbolism in his paintings and collages, which use a combination of acrylics, oil pastels, spray paint, and other mixed media. Jarmon currently has two exhibitions in the French Quarter; one at Milk Studio and another at Studio 831. Flooding from hurricane Katrina destroyed Jarmon’s workspace and most of his paintings. Some unfinished works and other works ready for sale were left floating in floodwater for days. Jarmon managed to salvage and restore some of the pieces, integrating the stains and watermarks into the finished works.