Biography

Christina Goodwin was born and raised in Massachusetts and recently graduated from Boston University with her B.F.A. in Painting. She has devoted her work recently to paintings of cars in parking garages, on highways and in empty lots. Some have compared her work to "film noir" and many find the handling of her subjects "deeply original and filled with movement:"

Before college, Goodwin was took night classes in painting with a BU alumnus, Jack Highberger, at his school, Acorn Gallery, in Marblehead, MA. It was there she learned traditional painting methods. In 2001, she was accepted to Boston University's College of Fine Arts.

At BU, she trained with some of many acclaimed contemporary artists--Richard Raiselis, Stuart Baron and Hugh O'Donnell, just to name a few. It was from this esteemed faculty she was given the freedom and confidence to pursue a subject few have handled with her same care and creativity. After she graduated, she was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, where she was able to work further and interact with artists from around the nation.

Goodwin hopes her paintings convey a human presence, despite the fact that there are no figures in the compositions. She believes very strongly that it is the cars themselves that represent people and many a viewer has agreed.

Goodwin also hopes to capture the kind of genuine beauty that lies in often the most uncomfortable situations where we leave our cars behind. Parking garages are a perfect example. A parking garage is a place where no one wants to be, but Goodwin wants people to stop and understand how parking garages can also be beautiful and interesting.