January 18 - February 15, 2025
From Valley House Gallery:
“Valley House Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition Miles Cleveland Goodwin: The Soul and the Skin. Join us for the Opening Reception next Saturday, January 18, 5:00pm-7:00pm, preceded by Artist Remarks at 4:30pm. Please note the earlier reception time. We encourage you to visit the gallery this week or next, 10:00am-5:00pm, any day except Sunday, to preview the paintings in the exhibition.
Sing praises to earth’s creatures who have endured millions of deaths.
To the real gods who roam this land creating music from breaths.
It is our affairs that ignite fires of beauty from hand,
May we withdraw for a time to let them heal this land.
It is the purity of flesh and the warmth of fur,
Or an unusual offering causing the soul to stir.
The bone, the antler, the lungs and the teeth,
Form a gentle maiden and a death of a thief.
Lost magic created by ages of innocence,
Sculpts a thick atmosphere of lust and omnipotence.
Let their love help me create the work in which I try,
From the soul and the skin to whisper a faint goodbye.
—Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Miles Cleveland Goodwin, Strange Angels, 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Born in 1980, in Biloxi, Mississippi, Miles Cleveland Goodwin spent his youth in the South, and currently lives in Georgia. His work was exhibited recently at Anima Mundi Gallery in England. Two paintings have been added to the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans: Lucifer and Prisoner of War, and his painting Resurrection from 2016, is in the permanent collection of The Grace Museum in Abilene.”
Reception: January 18, 2025 | 5–7 pm
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
6616 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, 75254 TX
(972) 239-2441
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