Laurie Goodhart

The motives underlying all my paintings are both current and timeless: our common need for sustenance, beauty, and grace. Humans have not changed dramatically since we first appeared and I look for threads of continuity, aiming to make imagery that’s rooted in the mythic, the mystic, and the cycles of Nature.

Paintings of vessels, birds, plant life, and human figures are cast as aspects of an elusive yet inviting sanctuary. Frequently the images are rooted in the remnants of ancient cultures, both tangible and oral, but they are always responding to our current world as well.

Concurrent with my professional art practice, soon after completing a dual major in fine art and philosophy, I was also an organic farmer from 1988-2017 largely occupied with goats and with effecting alchemical transformations of milk and plants. Those decades of raw, ever-precarious, thoughtful farm experience resonate throughout the artwork, testifying to the cycles & perils of life for all sentient beings, humans included.

Laurie Goodhart is a lifelong professional artist with a BFA from University of Albany. She has exhibited widely in the US and Canada for over 30 years and is represented in hundreds of private collections. The largest part of her work is in oil on canvas but also includes watercolor, imagery on stoneware vessels, block prints, artist books, large scale paper mobiles, and sculpture.

2023 Small Works, Hubbard Hall Gallery, Cambridge NY
Chris Hebert Design Group, Bradenton FL [rep. 2020-current] 2022 Ritual&Witchcraft, Womens Work Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY
ASA Annual, Cambridge NY
Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, Rutland VT
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester VT
Rockland County Arts Festival [online]
Elements of Nature, J. Mane Gallery [online]
2021 Land of Enchantment, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
Landscapes For Land’s Sake, ASA Annual, Cambridge NY
Small Works, R Gallery, Albany NY
Emergence, BAU Gallery, Beacon NY
Remnants Of A Lost Sanctuary, installation, Stephen Procter Studios, Brattleboro VT
Clementine Magazine issue 2, (online pub.)
Chris Hebert Design Group, Hudson, NY [representation]
2020 Landscapes For Landsake, ASA annual
Remnants Of A Lost Sanctuary, Gallery at S. Procter Studios, Brattleboro VT
Ancient Sources, Brattleboro VT
Beyond Words, cover art March ‘20, print lit. pub, Berlin
Still Point Arts Quarterly, Winter ‘20, print pub. Shanti Arts, Brunswick ME
2019 ​ Remnants of A Lost Sanctuary, Gallery at Hubbard Hall, Cambridge NY
Washington County Open Studio Tour, July 19-21
Still Point Arts Quarterly, Fall 2019, print pub. Shanti Arts, Brunswick ME
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