Chris posts a long list of reviews at Zeke’s Gallery, including two in the Globe & Mail about the current exhibition of works by Montreal artist Betty Goodwin at the Sable-Castelli Gallery in Toronto.

Sarah Milroy writes that this “may well be the artist’s last in Toronto. At 81, her health is failing, and her production is finally, after decades of consummate grace, beginning to falter.”

Gary Michael Dault calls it “An unabashedly moving experience”.

Reading these reviews sent me to find my precious copy of the catalogue of Betty Goodwin’s traveling exhibition from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts that came to the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1987. Looking again at the drawings, prints and paintings brought back the powerful feelings her work evoked in me when I first saw them in the VAG. I wish I could go to Toronto to see the current show! I wish there was a website devoted to Goodwin’s huge body of work. Here are a few links where one can see some examples:

– Sable-Castelli Gallery
– Canada Council for the Arts – Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2003 with high resolution images – scroll down to “Betty Goodwin”.
– 3rd Biennale de Montréal 2002
– at Artnet

Thank you, Chris!