International Visions is pleased to present
Brazilian artist:

Marlene Godoy

“CONSIDERATIONSCONSIDERAÇõES”

May 7 to June 7, 2008

Opening Reception:

Saturday, May 10th

from 6:30-9:00pm

Teacher, painter, poet, Marlene Godoy has established a successful career internationally as a master of the plastic arts. Her work reflects influences of a diversity of cultures: Indigenous, European, African, and Brazilian. In the mid-1990s Godoy became deeply interested in the ancient craft of encaustic. The encaustic technique served as a material support for her relief and assemblage sculptural paintings. Godoy uses fragments of an array of objects collected in the course of her personal history, ranging from bits of family china and scraps taken from her collection of handbags, to materials with semantic associations, such as chips of Brazilian wood, indigenous artifacts, and Brazilian gemstones.
Godoy was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil and lives in Brasilia, Brazil. She has lived in Berlin, Germany and travel extensively around the world for inspiration, Portugal, South Africa, Mozambique and Angola where she researched the Quiokos art at the Scientific Institute of Angola. She also traveled to Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, England, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Chile and Mexico where she researched Aztec art. In 1970, she was invited by established journalist, dramatist and writer Nelson Rodrigues for a solo exhibition entitled “Brazilian Soccer”. Since that exhibition, Godoy began exhibiting around Brazil, including an exhibition presented by Pietro Maria Bardi, former Director of the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo (MASP), Museum of Art of the State of Para, Correios Gallery of Rio de Janeiro, Museum of Art of Brasilia. She has exhibited in Washington, New York, Paris and Italy, including the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy.

Gallery Hours: 11am to 6pm Wednesday – Saturday