Awareness Post: Johanna Goodman

Johanna Goodman is a collage artist and illustrator based in New York. She studied at Boston University's School of Fine Art and Parsons School of Design. The work I'm featuring in my post is her collage work. I've recently dipped into collage because I like that it allows me to dart my focus around more. I've currently only dove into non-objective collage, so I included picture of her non-objective collages, accompanied by some of her objective work. I've been playing around with mixed media and mashing together different things instead of creating one main subject. I think her work inspires me to maybe try creating an image with collage at some point. It would be fun to continue using mixed media with that. Goodman's work features fun colors, clean lines, and is a salad of organic and geometric shapes. I really respond to all of these qualities. I hope to make future pieces with as much craftsmanship as she does. I loveee the pattern in the turtle piece. I haven't yet played with pattern and I think it could be really fun to incorporate it into my work. I also love turtles. I love the coral dress piece, because the colors are super fun and I also just like fish and coral. I liked the color scheme of the piece with the cat along with the fruit theme of the piece following it. I liked to incorporate related items as well as weave a color scheme into my work, so it's helpful seeing some of the color schemes she works with. I responded to the collage of the girl, bear, eagle, and nature because I love being outside. The piece feels like it had a more intentional approach than my first collage attempt.

Her Website: https://www.johannagoodman.com/

Books featuring her work: Collage by Women (Pomopress Editions, 2019), The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art (Gestalten, 2016), he Age of Collage 3: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, (Gestalten, 2020), Every Body (Little, Brown & Co, 2020), and Rolling Stone, The Illustrated Portraits (Rizzoli, 2020).

Published by: 3x3 Magazine, The Observer / Guardian in the UK, Marie Claire Maison and Le Courier International in France, Fahrenheit Magazine in Mexico, Tempo Travel in Turkey, and Metal Magazine in Spain, Frankie Magazine in Australia, and Uppercase Magazine in the US. Her work has also been featured on design websites such as Vice, WePresent by WeTransfer, Adobe Create, Trendland, The Creative Review, This is Colossal, Inspiration Grid, and in Europe on The Green Box, Fubiz, Ignant, Picame and Osso.

Clients: Facebook, Airbnb, Netflix, Pirelli, Adidas, Ferragamo, Universal Music Group Japan, West Elm, Valextra, Doordash, truTV, Renaissance hotels, Celebrity Cruises, Habitat Skateboards, The Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Museum, The New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Random House, Time, Ms., The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Smithsonian, National Geographic, Harvard Chan School of Medicine, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Le Monde, D/La Repubblica, Grazia, UCLA, USC, Wharton Business School, Emory, and Wired Magazine among many others.

Purchase her prints here: https://www.thecatalogueofimaginarybeings.com/