Dryden Goodwin was born in Bournemouth, in 1971. He is an established artist who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, his work has appeared in dozens of international solo and group exhibitions also awarded a Nesta Fellowship in 2000.
Goodwin lives and works in London, fascinated by the urban spaces and its effect on the individual, using a variety of media including photography, video, film, sound, drawing and painting. His work has focused in the use of a zoom lens further confounds the distance between the camera and its subject, a relationship between the viewer and the viewed that creates an atmosphere which embraces hostility and intimacy.
Attending to Dryden Goodwin’s exhibition at Photographer’s Gallery I had the opportunity to observe his latest work which he had drawn 60 pencil portraits and 60 films recordings of the drawings being made from a diverse range of people which is very impressive the fact that the people he had taken photographs are not celebrities and not even people who looks amazing but completely strangers on Oxford Street or on a bus looking normal. The subject are in sharp focus and everything around them is blurred; the black and white pictures had strange drawn patterns and structure onto the people’s faces and the colour pictures had rivers of red brighten average patterns.
Goodwin’s works are incredibly amazing because he achieves something very simple but extremely original and unique.
REFERENCE
- Dryden Goodwin's Exhibition at Photographers Gallery
- http://www.drydengoodwin.com/drawing.htm
- http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2671586/dryden_goodwin/
- http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pxid=943
- http://londonist.com/2008/10/review_cast_photographers_gallery.php
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