Painting images and information chronicling solo painting exhibitions by artist BRENT GODFREY, including artist statements and exhibition descriptions.
SOCIAL STUDIES Contemporary History Paintings
visual contemplations of culture & Identity, exploring historical events and their implications, personally and socially.
PAINTINGS of PEOPLE FIGURATIVE WORKS
human images focusing primarily on internal experience.
CHILDREN
paintings of people in the early stages of life
YOU ANIMAL RECONSIDERING WILDLIFE PAINTING
paintings of souls in various physical forms
FAWN SERIES
This series of paintings started with a single painting of a fawn that I had encountered while hiking. Having several ideas of how to approach the subject, I decided to create several paintings. This evolved into a collection about painting styles & techniques together with an animal presence that has often been seen as a self portrait.
ABSTRACT PAINTINGS
works that are primarily nonrepresentational, featuring mark-making, color, composition, gesture, space & visual relationships as primary subjects
FTT Forest Through Trees
sparse mindscape paintings
Brent Godfrey uses the painting process to translate objects, figures and landscapes into physical metaphor.
Combining varying degrees of abstraction and representation, he explores identity and memory, interpersonal relationships and social conventions.
Raised in the United States, Godfrey completed a Master’s degree then continued his painting education through postgraduate studies in Europe and the United States. He has participated in numerous local, regional and international museum and gallery exhibitions and mounted significant solo shows. Godfrey’s paintings have garnered awards and been published broadly.
Showing moments captured during the creation of a painting. There are no tidy steps in building my work. Instead, there is a continuum involving constant decision making. My paintings evolve from a visual dialogue between myself and the canvas.
INSTALLED ARTWORK SHOWN IN PRIVATE & PUBLIC SETTINGS.
Art does not exist within a bubble. It changes the spaces that it occupies, and is altered by its surroundings. This section shows snapshots of a small portion of my paintings in environments that they dwell in. My appreciation to the collectors and installers who have shared these images with me. Together, they are good examples of how art can transform environments and how paintings are altered by their surrounds.