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Stephen Goodfellow
Steven Goodfellow Figurative Oil Painting Primary Micro Pointillism
1980-1990's

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SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Stephen Goodfellow's figurative paintings can be read as a narrative puzzle that are a challenge to pick apart. In this painting both characters are smiling suggesting something pleasant has happened or is about to happen. There is much more going on: sink full of forgotten dirty dishes, food on the stove boiling over, and other food half prepared on a table. Are these messes incidental to the pleasure of the floating battleship in the tub and the hot drink the female enjoys? The clock is set at 8:30, morning or night? today or tomorrow? Do we care? Life is messy and sometimes repeats itself, but simple pleasures are a few stolen moments in time. Stephen is surely a creative genius with his relatively common scenes that bring you to a realization or philosophical resolution about life. Even though the image is static, the thoughts of the viewers make the painting come alive. Stephen’s figures tend to be in the viewer’s space because we are up close and personal with the subjects. Their eyes and faces depict an internal struggle. Full of color, Stephen’s paintings are not only lively with physical action, but lively with the emotional reaction of the viewer to his colors and his placement of them. The following biography was an Oral History Interview by Wayne State University Libraries Project. Facts remain as recorded, but have been rearranged to suit this format. Goodfellow, born in England, has lived in Nigeria, Denmark, Mexico and the U.S. His early education occurred in Danish schools and is consequently he is fluent in Danish, its culture and history. At the formative age of 14 his family moved to Monterrey, Mexico where he began to study art. The following year he applied for and was accepted into East Ham Technical College in London, England. Following that on a full grant from Hull Regional College of Art in the North-East of England, he received in 1974 a Diploma for Art and Design (BFA.) Goodfellow came to Wayne State University in Detroit in 1975 to pursue his MFA which he received in 1977. His area of interest was painting and printmaking. Stephen had developed a primary color printing technique and began using this technique called “Primary Microppointillism” on conventional surfaces. Micropointillism uses only the primary colors (yellow, red and blue) which are applied to the surface in small spatters of color. By using different intensities of these three colors one can produce an almost limitless palate of colors. Several examples of these works have been acquired by the Detroit Institute of Art and further work was in the 1995 “Interventions” Exhibit at the DIA. Even before the advent of the World Wide Web, Stephen had demonstrated that the principles of Micropointillism are perfectly suited for the electronic medium; that the manipulation of primary colors make for a seamless transition between the reflective and the radiative image. These studies of color and light by Stephen have been conducted over a number of years and are fairly complicated to understand. He gives a partial explanation in saying: Reflective light exhibits spectral absorption lines (absences of light in the spectrum) whereas radiative light contains emission lines (bright lines in the spectrum). By 1999, Stephen had launched into Macropointillism a technique similar to Micropointillism, but executed with sizable dabs of primary colors on large canvases. A more thorough study of Stephen’s processes can be obtained online. Stephen lived in Highland Park, Michigan for 33 years, then moved to Ann Arbor from 2008 to 2011 when he moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He currently works on fresco buon, digital art and writing.

Creator:

Stephen Goodfellow (American)

Creation Year:

1980-1990's

Dimensions:

Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 82 in (208.28 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

Late 20th Century