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.(click on images to enlarge) |
