A fervent collector of the ephemera of others, Joanna looks at the materials she acquires from bygone eras and finds beauty in their residual quality. Sleeves from 45 records, old sewing paper patterns, crinkled paper airplanes inspire images and also her purpose for making them. As she is aesthetically preoccupied with objects that show age, the items are often faded and fragmented. She categorizes the remnants in accordance of era, palette and recites some of these physical characteristics in paintings. Goss’s accounts of her interactions with objects expand into wishful ruminations made in gouache on paper. There is as much a story in the space and air of moth holes as in the color and pattern of a dress.
Joanna Goss received her BFA from Northern Illinois University in Acrylic and Oil painting in 2009.
