Francie Bishop Good: It's All Good
Museum of Art (MOA), Fort Lauderdale, Florida
April 7 - July 15, 2001
Carly TV, an innovative video installation by rising artist, Francie Bishop Good, is on view at MOA. Carly TV is a series of works utilizing images from television, advertising and famous works of art that are digitally manipulated and added to photographs taken by the artist. Through the use of photography and computer generated imagery, Francie Bishop Good seizes an opportunity to make an intriguing statement about life and society.
The exhibition is part of MOA’s Contemporary Project Series, a program of exhibitions, projects and events engaging the artist, participant and audience in an exchange of ideas, experiences and emotions, challenging visitors by exposing them to new media. The series is dedicated to the exhibition of work by alternative media artists. Carly TV marks Good’s first investigation of photography without painting. After experimentation with painting, mixed media and collage, Good felt the move into digital technology was a natural evolution and that technology helped her to “refine and edit my style, opening creative doors formally and conceptually.”
The work began with snapshots taken of her family in Allentown, Pennsylvania. This show features pictures of her niece, Carly. Francie Bishop Good says, “the juxtaposition of Carly’s innocence against the brashness of the TV creates a disparate dialogue that is a jumping ground for my ideas. The television in the work is a loaded object, acting as both a sculpture and a two-dimensional image.” For Good, the television images represents a specific time in the American culture. She explains: “It allows me to use the screen as a canvas for political, social and artistic statement. Stealing historical paintings and making them my own or the TV’s own is something lusciously sinful and an important part of my work.”
Francie Bishop Good studied at Philadelphia College of Art and received her BFA in painting from University of Colorado in 1972 and her Masters from Florida Atlantic University in 1985. Recently, Good studied at New York’s International Center of Photography and the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. Good was the recipient of the 2000 Fellowship Award from the South Florida Cultural Consortium. More of Good’s work can be seen at the Gallery Camino Real in Boca Raton, Florida and at New York’s Denise Bibro Fine Art. Today, Francie Bishop Good works from her studio in Fort Lauderdale.
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