Tara (www.taragood.org) Good SicwerkStudio Backbay Studio Clyo Studio
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Biography
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Born: 1970 New Jersey, USA
Tara Good lived across the United States and in the Dominican Republic, currently living in Sea Isle City, NJ.
At the age of 15, Good won the Congressional Award for a photo-realistic drawing that was featured in the United States Capitol Building for one year. She has studied at Parson's in NYC, The California College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Ca and at Altos De Chavon in the Dominican Republic.
Good was one of The Top Five to Collect in Savannah, Ga. and continued to win numerous awards for her work when she lived down South. After she moved back to New Jersey, her work continued to be in several TV shows & movies, serious health issues plagued Good. Still, this artist continues to paint on how mankind has impacted nature's environment with or without the human figure. Using acrylic, mica, watercolors, gouache, ink, and century old bits of text & images, Good focuses her lens on what is "ugly beautiful" in our ever changing modern world by utilizing her camera, computer, and printing stencils that are then hand cut, by the artist, and finally incorporates into so many paintings. As of 2021, Good's work can be seen throughout the South New Jersey Shore; in numerous restaurants, stores, and where Good concentrates on local art pop ups for other local & tri-state artists. She has expanded her vocabulary by using an ancient way of painting (with encaustic wax) and continues to be interested with a variety of surfaces, mediums, & techniques.
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Statement
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After children, battling leukemia, and living with crippling health issues, I still create and explore new mediums. I say "new," but encaustic wax has been around since, approximately, the 5th century. The dichotomy of the ever changing environment, frozen in wax, to last forever. I want to haunt the viewer, with memories of summers long gone bye, and the viewer to create their own story for each piece. Some pieces are a mirror to the viewer's experience, a token that they were there and some collections are experimental (2015-2019) with learning all over again. I'm striving to help locate space for artist, at all levels, to get eyes on their work and to give back to the area with an artistic vision.
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Exhibitions
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Upcoming Events:
Holiday Art Happening (Thanksgiving Weekend) 2024
The Princeton
Avalon, NJ
Current work on display at:
The Raw & Refined Art Pop Up 2024
The Princeton
Avalon, NJ
Rick's
Sea Isle City, NJ
Modo Mio
Sea Isle City, NJ
Previosly @
SJMA
Cape May Court House, Nj
Armadillo
Avalon, NJ
Il Posto
Avalon, NJ
Chasen Gallery SC circa 2007
Cape May County Art League (America's oldest art league)
Cape May, NJ circa 1989
Fogle Fine Art
Jacksonville, FL
circa 2004-2013
Accent Gallery
Ocean City, NJ
circa 2005-2014
William Ris Gallery
Stone Harbor, NJ circa
2005- 2014
Sande Webster Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
circa 2005-2014
Several group shows including (but not limited to) Art Saves Lives (10/14-11/4 circa 2010)
"Art in the City"
group show
8/4-8/27 2008
Metals & Paint
Savannah, GA
circa 2003-2005
Featured artist
The Starlander
Savannah, GA
"*New Work" 10/2003
"*Interior Miracles" 8/6-8/30
*single artist's show
3rd Floor Gallery
Savannah, GA
Group Show 2003
Telfair juried Art Fair
group show
second place award 11/2003
Again in 11/2004
Dia De LA Raza
curated by Hilda & Jose Ettedgui
10/9/2004
group show of featured artist/benefit for Patron of the Hearts charity
Accent Gallery
Abstract Landscapes (featured artist) 10/21-10/29 2011
Gallery RoCa Harve de Grace, MD
Oil & Dust (5 select artist show) 2006 (date/show to best of artist memory, may vary slightly)
High Street Gallery
Millville, NJ
The Prodical Show (single artist show) 8/6-8/30 2004
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts
Millville, NJ
group show circa 2005
Azalealand Nusing Home
Mural work/mica faux finished walls
Savannah, GA
Media/Press:
"Wrong Way Out" (Art dept) currently on-going feature film from E. B. Hughes
"Extreme Makeover" Home Edition
SO2E20/Harvey Family (donated artwork for project)
"The Year of Getting to know Us"
Feature film (artwork) 2008
Press of Atlantic City "Extreme Artistry" section B pages 1 & B1
Millville News "Leesburg Artist has work on TV" front page & section A2
Savannah Morning News "Eroding Faith" section L 7 & 11
Savannah Morning News "Artful Shimmer" section L 6 & 9
Ocean City Sentinel "Artwork in the House" section C 1 & 8
Primetime Magazine
"The Season Begins" page 2
Arbus Magazine "Fall Arts Issue" September/October issue 2004 page 9
Omega Muse,LLC "The Possibility of Art"
Bryn Mawr, PA
Sea Isle Times 2015 summer issue page 31
Artist's Studios:
SICWERKSTUDIO (2011- present day)
Sea Isle City, NJ
BackBay Studio I & II (2007-2010)
Leesburg, NJ
Clyo Studio (2002-2005 Clyo, GA)
Tara Good has always been in a creative environment. Like many, her early years included work that isn't readily accepted by many. Good modeled/acted since age 15. She continues to support the dramatic arts, to this very day, helping independent film makers, hospitals, and businesses. Creativity is never far from her reach.
Movies/tv/print includes (but not limited to)
Ice Scream Genoveso Films/Derek Zemrak /Longwoods Gardens commercial Chia Pet commercial (Looney Toons edition) /City of Angels angel in library /Copy Cat sitting next to serial killer during during lecture/ many Bay Area student films and even many more commercials & films. Good worked with E.B.Hughes on his film Dead Body Found (working title 2022) Wrong Way Out (current working title) estimated release date December 2024
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