In addition to paintings and engravings, Betty Goodwin created collages, sculptures and installations, particularly in the form of interventions such as Clark St. and De Mentana; the latter project combined architecture and sculpture within a Montreal apartment located at 4005 De Mentana Street. The Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts houses a mural piece she completed under the 1% integration policy: among its features, a megaphone and a giant ear cast in bronze represent the difficulty in understanding and communicating with others. Goodwin’s work centres on the pain of living, human anguish and the fragility of individual existence. She received the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas in 1986 and was featured in a major retrospective at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1988. She represented Canada at both the 20th Sao Paolo Biennale in 1989 and the Venice Biennale in 1995, and was awarded the Order of Canada in 2003.
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« Betty Goodwin : Recent Works » by John K. Grande, ESPACE, vol. 5, n° 4, p. 29.
« Adding History: The Art of Betty Goodwin » by Virginia MacDonnell Eichhorn, ESPACE #50, p. 41.
« Sculpt Words and Language, Place Words in Space » by Serge Fisette, ESPACE #78, p. 10.
« Deuils (suite) » by Gilles Daigneault, ESPACE #87, p. 24.
