MAR GOMAN was born in 1947 and grew up in Fall City, Washington. In 1979 she returned to the Northwest to attend graduate school at Portland State University and soon after established her studio in Portland. She has been showing around the Northwest since 1981.

Mar is a multi-media artist who works in a wide variety of media ranging from drawing and painting to collage, fibers, embroidery, book arts, assemblage and sculpture. She works with many different materials including found objects such as sticks, stones, bones, rusty metal, and old papers and fabrics. Her work frequently addresses the human psycho-spiritual journey and often includes text and human, animal, or spirit figures. She is influenced by tribal art, outsider art, and the religious symbolism of many traditions.

Mar’s work is eccentric and does not fit easily into any particular category of art. She thinks of herself as a ‘thing-maker’ and her relationship with the art world is an uneasy one. Her primary instinct as an artist is to make things by hand, and this obsessively hand-made quality is a thread which runs through all of her work.

a past show installation