The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings, Plate No. 28 2017
Using various textures and body parts, Goodman collages together bizarrely beautiful formations. The costumes and figures in the catalogue are strangely disjointed, with cumbersome proportions and voluminous gowns made-up from a selection of textures that keep surprising you at every turn. The playfulness of it all recalls the joyous absurdity of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The haute couture of Comme des Garçons, or dare I say it, the costumes of The Hunger Games. They’re odd, wildly imaginative, and strangely beautiful, and surely they reveal a little bit of Goodman’s own whimsical nature.
The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings, Plate No. 566 2025
Using various textures and body parts, Goodman collages together bizarrely beautiful formations. The costumes and figures in the catalogue are strangely disjointed, with cumbersome proportions and voluminous gowns made-up from a selection of textures that keep surprising you at every turn. The playfulness of it all recalls the joyous absurdity of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The haute couture of Comme des Garçons, or dare I say it, the costumes of The Hunger Games. They’re odd, wildly imaginative, and strangely beautiful, and surely they reveal a little bit of Goodman’s own whimsical nature.
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Johanna Goodman
United States
https://www.johannagoodman.com/
Based in New York, Johanna Goodman is an internationally exhibited Artist whose principal medium is collage.
She is also a widely published Illustrator.
Goodman was awarded the New York State Council for the Arts grant and she has also garnered gold medals from The Society of Illustrators and awards from American Illustration and Communication Arts.
Clients include: Facebook, Airbnb, Netflix, Pirelli, Ferragamo, Valextra, Hilton Hotels, Celebrity Cruises, Habitat Skateboards, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Random House, The New York Times, Le Monde, D/La Repubblica, & Grazia Magazine among others.
Her work has been included in several books about Art, Collage and Illustration including Collage by Women (Promopress Editions, 2019), The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art (Gestalten, 2016), The Age of Collage 3: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, (Gestalten, 2020) and Rolling Stone, The Illustrated Portraits (Rizzoli, 2020) among others.