Mike Goodlett’s (b. 1958) oeuvre rests inside a seemingly ordinary farmhouse, which acts both as studio and site in his ongoing installation. This humble venue houses totems of unknown entities and objects of hidden desire. Swollen bodies, abstracted objects, and winding architectures are composed from plaster, concrete, enamel, and spray paint. Goodlett’s world is playful yet elegant, populated yet lonely, yielding restrained imagery that blurs the line between eroticism and whimsy.
Mike Goodlett was born in 1958 in Lexington, KY. He earned a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1983. Solo exhibitions include The Language of Flowers at Reyes | Finn (Detroit, MI) and Chez Lui at MARCH (Kentucky) in 2021, Mike Goodlett: Almost Folly at Tops Gallery (Memphis, TN) and the Atlanta Biennial (Atlanta, GA) in 2019, Human Behavior at the John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI) 2016, HOMEBODY atChristian Berst Art Brut (New York, NY) in 2015, and Dress Socks and Other Diversions atInstitute 193 (Lexington, KY) in 2011.
Goodlett has been included in exhibitions at the University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington, KY), SHRINE (New York, NY), The Elaine de Kooning House (East Hampton, NY), Atlanta Contemporary Art Centre (Atlanta, GA), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta, GA), and KMAC Museum (Louisville, KY). He has been represented by MARCH since 2020.
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Mike Goodlett
