Janis Goodman is a DC based artist. She was born in New York City. Janis is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art at George Washington University. She maintains a studio in Mt. Rainier, Maryland and Berkeley Springs, WV.
The large-scale paintings and drawings move between the narrative and the deconstructed. They are based upon observations from the sky, sea and land. They are a construction of remembered images and colors that suggest imminent change, at times foreboding, at times wondrous. The work is executed in oil on canvas of multiple thin layers to create luminosity and depth.
Janis’ recent tondos (circular paintings) are portals into the imagined and the remembered. The circular nature of the work is to suggest a continuum of time and movement. They look at the changing environment through a round prism. They are concerns for our planet as much as they are in awe of our planet.
Her work has been shown nationally in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas, Maine and Washington, DC. Internationally she has exhibited in Greece, Peru, Russia, Korea, Germany, Italy, England and The Netherlands. In addition to her private studio practice she is a member of Workingman Collective, a group of artists doing site specific and community related projects.
Janis has been the arts reviewer for WETA’s TV program Around Town since 2001. She co-curated the traveling photography exhibition Is Seeing Believing? The Real, The Surreal, The Unreal in Contemporary Photography. Her writings on art have been published in Sculpture Magazine and numerous artist’s monographs. She has lectured at the National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Smithsonian and has been a visiting artist and lecturer at colleges and artist residencies in the United States and abroad.
Her work is in many private and public collections including the Department of the Interior, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Hunter Museum of Art, Hickory Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Museo della Carta in Fabriano, Italy, Fondazione Fremantle, Villa Peyron, Fiesole, Italy, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Katzen Center at American University, Meyer Foundation, plus many others.
Janis has received numerous DC Commission on the Arts Grants to Individual Artists, The Bader Prize and is a recipient of a National Endowment support grant. Janis has an MFA from George Washington University with additional studies at the Corcoran, UCLA, Pratt Graphics and in Italy. She is sited in Who’s Who in American Art and other national publications.