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Artist shows models of his Rust-Belt inspired, large-scale public
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eil Goodman grew up in Indiana, but he's made
many trips to Michigan. Besides visiting the
family of aunt Frieda Olen, he got to know the
area's cultural centers, including the Cranbrook
Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills and its
acclaimed Carl Milles sculpture garden.
Now a sculptor himself — and a professor of fine arts at
Indiana University Northwest in Gary — Goodman is
preparing massive pieces for another artistic space in a
scholastic setting. Working with landscape architect
Cynthia Owen-Bergland, he is developing a sculpture gar-
den at the school where he teaches.
Well known in the Chicago art community for a num-
ber of sculptures in the city's public spaces, including the
McCormick Place South Pavilion, Goodman pays tribute
to the environment as well as the industrial influences of
the region.
As an artist," he has said, "I have been greatly influenced
by the industrial topography of northwest Indiana. As a fre-
quent commuter from Gary to Chicago over the years, I
have often marveled at the fantastic and uniquely sculptural
shapes of many of the mills, bridges, barges and cranes
indigenous to the area. I have always lived close•to this
landscape, and my work is both a reflection of my environ-
ment as well as a visual link to it."
Detroiters can glimpse a scaled-down version of
Goodman's current project, "Shadows and Echoes,"
through an exhibit at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery in
Detroit. The pieces, on view through May 28 and.part
of a two-person show titled "Site Lines," are models of
the bronze statuary that will fill the glassed-in courtyard
and an adjacent grassy knoll at IUN. The "shadows and
echoes" of his title refers both to the repetition within
the pieces and to the industrial shapes they echo.
"The models at the gallery are intended to be studies and
pieces within themselves," says Goodman, 50, whose local-
ly exhibited work is placed in tandem with Elizabeth
Mead's more realistic, plaster-based structures. "I have a
series of voids and passages.
"Each sculpture is constructed with four lines that create
a frame so the sculptures basically are mirror images of
each other. They relate to the idea that each sculpture
forms its own echo or becomes a shadow of other parts
within the visual vocabulary."
When the actual garden is finished, it will form a large-
scale composition where all the forms can be seen simulta-
neously. People will walk through the garden and have
multiple viewpoints without any blockage of space.
Goodman, who became interested in art as an under-
graduate student at Indiana University, earned a bachelor's
degree in both fine arts and comparative religion. He went