Laine Godsey

Laine Godsey
UPenn MFA '13

Statement-
I realize that we see our bodies mirrored in the spaces in which we live, the chairs in which we sit and the gardens that we tend. The home and its contents become definitions of who we are, talisman of our passage through time. All of my works stand as confrontations or reflections of my body. It is only when a form leaves the confines of my images and extends physically in space that it lives. This is because a body must be robust, brawny. I need to feel it, smell it and move around it.

A fleshy, floral wad placed like a prize at the top of a derelict ladder reminds me of my former lover. This is my chance to emasculate him. Will you laugh with me at his impotence?

The fur I used to cloak a bodily paper form fails to either conceal or exalt the portly figure. When splayed and skinned the body
is left exposed. Are you embarrassed for my pathetic paper form?

All of this is evidence that we find reflections of ourselves in our surroundings. I see my works living as proclamations, as corroborations that I am here, he was here and we are here.

Academic Qualifications
2011-13 Masters of Fine Arts; The University of Pennsylvania, Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Combined Media, Certificate in New and Time-Based Media
2010 Bachelors of Fine Arts: Studio Arts, Minor in Art History, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma
2006 SACI, Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy

Awards and Honors
2013 The Lawrence Shprintz MFA Award; awarded to a graduating PennDesign MFA student for outstanding performance in any medium
2013 ISC Student Award for Exellence in Sculpture Candidate, nominated by Terry Adkins
2012 Susan Cromwell Coslett Traveling Fellowship, PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania- Travel to Turkey
2012 Elected PennDesign Graduate Council, Fine Arts Representative 2012-2013
2011 Departmental Grant, PennDesign Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Best of Show, New Years Resolution, CIAO Gallery, Jackson, WY
2010 Best of Show, Oklahoma Art Guild National Juried Exhibition, Oklahoma Friendly, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK, Juror: Mitch Lyons
2010 Dr. Bob Palmer Scholarship for the Fine Arts Recipient
2010 The University of Central Oklahoma Department of Fine Arts Tuition Wavier Scholarship
2010 President of t...