Untitled, 1987 mixed media on aluminium Overall: 121.9 × 274.3 cm (48 × 108 in.) Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of the Frum Family
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In her drawings, Montreal artist Betty Goodwin (1923-2008) addresses mortality, suffering, survival and other weighty aspects of human existence. This selection of works from the mid-1980s, which features four new acquisitions, shows her continued experimentation with the figure as it relates to memory and mourning. Goodwin’s haunting, drifting, sometimes charred bodies often present opposites: transparency and opacity, weight and buoyancy, passage and obstruction.
