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Oakland University
Art and Art History

310 Wilson Hall
Rochester , MI 48309
(location map)
phone: (248) 370-3375
fax: (248) 370-3377

Oakland University
Art and Art History

310 Wilson Hall
Rochester , MI 48309
(location map)
phone: (248) 370-3375
fax: (248) 370-3377

Dick Goody

man in a pink shirt with his arms crossed, smiling at the camera

Professor of Art
Director of the Oakland University Art Gallery
Location: 209 Wilson Hall
Phone: 248 370 3376
Fax: 248 370 3377
Email: [email protected]


Education
PGCE, Middlesex University, England, 1983
MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, England, 1982
BFA, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire, England, 1978

Major Fields
Curatorial practices, Contemporary Art, Painting

Courses Taught
ART 1150 Drawing for Non-majors
ART 2100 Beginning Drawing
ART 2300 Beginning Painting
ART 3190 Advanced Drawing & Painting I
ART 3310 Intermediate Painting
ART 3330 Historic Painting Techniques I
ART 3350 Historic Painting Techniques II
ART 4980 Advanced Drawing & Painting II
ART 4988 Senior Seminar in Studio Art
ART 4999 Senior Thesis in Studio Art

Books/Catalogues

Nostalgia & Outrage: Mary Fortuna and Adrian Hatfield, January 2024, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 62pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-80-8, Dick Goody author and editor.

Image and the Photographic Allusion, January 2022, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 72pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-77-8, Dick Goody author and editor.

Selections from the Mark and Ora Hirsch Pescovitz Collection, November 2021, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 50pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-76-1, Dick Goody author and editor.

Your Very Own Paradise, September 2019, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 36pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-76-1, Dick Goody author and editor.

Who Were They Then, October 2018, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 44pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-75-4, Dick Goody author and editor.

The Ethics of Depiction: Landscape, Still Life, Human, October 2017, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 72pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-73-0, Dick Goody author and editor.

Terrestrial/Celestial: Cody Vanderkaay, March 2017, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 28pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-72-3, Dick Goody author and editor.

Hiberna Flores, February 2017, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 48pp, ISBN: 978-0-925859-71-6, Dick Goody author and editor. 

The Berding Memorandum, October 2016, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 100pp, ISBN 978-0-95859-70-9, Dick Goody author and editor.

Carlos Rolón/Dzine: Commonwealth, April 2016, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 100pp. ISBN 978-0-925859-69-3, Dick Goody editor.

Susan Goethel Campbell: Field Guide, January 2015, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 120pp. ISBN 978-0-925859-65-5, Dick Goody editor.

The Body Metonymic: International Contemporary Sculpture, 2014, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 40pp. ISBN 978-0-925859-61-7, Dick Goody editor and author.

Gilda Snowden, Album: A Retrospective 1977-2010, 2013, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 50pp. ISBN 978-0-925859-60-0, Dick Goody editor and author.

The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, 2013, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 47pp. ISBN 978-0-925859-58-7, Dick Goody editor and author.

Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, 2012, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 48pp ISBN 978-0-925859-55-66, Dick Goody editor and author.

Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, March 2011, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 60pp. ISBN 978-0-9258559-53-2, Dick Goody editor and author.

Seminal Works from the N’Namdi Collection of African American Art, September 2008, Rochester, MI: Oakland University Art Gallery, 100pp. ISBN 978-0-925859-46-4, edited by Dick Goody.

Articles

  • “Pathos and Enlightenment,” Jamie Adams: The Falls, May 2013, pp. 4-5, Birmingham, MI: David Klein Gallery.
  • “Untold Stories,” Good For You, June 2012, pp. 2-5, Birmingham, MI: David Klein Gallery
  • “Interview with Dick Goody and Rick Vian,” Rick Vian, March 2009, pp. 6-11, Birmingham, MI: Robert Kidd Gallery
  • “Archive, Structure, and Abstraction: An Interview with Hartmut Austen,” Detroit Stories, September 2008, pp. 231-251, Detroit, MI: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, ISBN 978-0-9791991-6-5
  • “A Walk in the Himalayas,” Detroit Telegraph Journal, 2008, pp. 21-24, Detroit, MI: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, ISBN 978 -0-9791991-2-7.

Oral Presentations

In Conversation with Carole Harris, Mel Rosas, Clinton Snider, and Bryant Tillman (moderator), in conjunction with the exhibition Who Were They Then, November 18, 2018.

Carlos Rolón and Dick Goody in Conversation, in conjunction with Commonwealth catalogue launch, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, May 6, 2015.

Mavericks: The Shape of Things to Come (moderator), with Renaud Proch and Mari Spirito, Friends of Modern & Contemporary Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI., February 25, 2015.

What is Contemporary Sculpture? (moderator), in conjunction with The Body Metonymic, Oakland University Art Gallery, with Martha Mysko, William Stone, and Johannes VanDerBeek, March 16, 2014.

Higher Education in the Arts (moderator), in conjunction with Kresge Foundation & Art X.  Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, with Tom Berding, Guna Nadarajan, and Michael Stone Richards, April 13, 2013.

Selected Exhibitions

  • “Outside Work,” 2023, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI.
  • “Moving Forward,” 2020, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI.
  • “I, Too, Am, Detroit,” 2019, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI.
  • “The Garden City,” 2018, Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center, Birmingham, MI (solo).
  • “Defacto Detroit: Selections From the N’Namdi Collection,” 2016, Center Galleries, College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.
  • “The Making of the Dauphine,” 2015, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI (solo).
  • “Live From Detroit,” 2011, Fred Torres Collaborations, New York, NY.
  • “ME/WE,” 2011, The Butcher’s Daughter Contemporary Art, Ferndale, MI.
  • “Painting Coast to Coast,” 2011, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, WSU, Detroit, MI.
  • “The Decay of Lying: New Paintings by Dick Goody,” 2010, The Butcher’s Daughter Contemporary Art, Ferndale, MI (solo).

Curated Exhibitions

Nostalgia & Outrage: Mary Fortuna and Adrian Hatfield, January 13 – March 24, 2024.
 
Outside Work, Faculty ExhibitionJanuary 12 –April 2, 2023, featuring Claude Baillargeon, Meaghan Barry, Lindsey Camelio, Dho Yee Chung, Setareh Ghoreishi, Dick Goody, David Lambert, Colleen Ludwig, Karen McGarry, Maria Smith Bohannon, Ryan Standfest, Cody VanderKaay

Image and the Photographic Allusion, Collection, January 14 – April 3, 2022, featuring: Mary Ellen Bartley, Peter Bialobrzeski, Markus Brunetti, Lucas Foglia, Cig Harvey, Jacqueline Hassink, Erik Madigan Heck, Pieter Hugo, Joshua Lutz, Michael Massaia, Jeffrey Milstein, Zanele Muholi, Christopher Payne, Toshio Shibata, Raïssa Venables.

Selections from the Mark and Ora Hirsch Pescovitz Collection, September 15 - November 20, 2021. Featuring: Yaacov Agam, Garo Zareh Antresian, Nancy Morgan Barnes, Robert Berkshire, Michael Berman, Christyl Boger, Philip H. Campbell, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, James L. Cunningham, James Wille Faust, Mark Flinkinger, Miquel Gelabert, Sam Gilliam, Janis G. Goodman, Elizabeth Guipe Hall, Felrath Hines, Tom Keesee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jeanette May, Peter Milton, Louis Pasteur, Mark Pescovitz, Judy Pfaff, Ronald Cohen-Rozencohn, Ivan Schwebel, Constance Edwards Scopelitus, Ivan Sizonenko, John Torreano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Mary Lou Dooley Waller. 

American Paintings from the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection, 1850-1940, January 10 – April 5, 2020. 

Your Very Own Paradise, September 7 – November 24, 2019, featuring: Nick Archer, Enrique Chagoya, Melanie Daniel, Maira Kalman, Amer Kobaslija, Andrew Lenaghan, Tayna Marcuse, Rebecca Morgan, Lamar Peterson, Orit Raff, Simon Roberts, Thomas Trosch, and Marc Yankus. 

Who Were They Then, October 20 – November 18, 2019, featuring: Morgan Barrie, Carole Harris, Mel Rosas, Clinton Snider, and Bryant Tillman.

The Ethics of Depiction: Landscape, Still Life, Human, October 2017, featuring: Matthew Albanese, Greta Alfaro, David Allee, Jasper de Beijer, Amy Bennett, Julie Blackmon, Sharon Core, Roe Ethridge, Richard Finkelstein, April Gornik, David Hilliard, Alex Kanevesky, Patrick Lee, Richard Mosse, Michael Najjar, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Richard Renaldi, Hannah Starkey, Becky Suss, Jörn Vanhöfen and Guido van der Werve.

Works Progress Administration Prints from the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Gerald Brockhurst Prints form the Collection of Carl F. Barnes Jr., and Anna M. Barnes, September 2016.

Carlos Rolón/Dzine: Commonwealth, January 2016.

The Body Metonymic: International Contemporary Art, January 2014, featuring: David Altmejd, Folkert de Jong, Lonnie Holley, Chris Jones, Fabienne Lasserre, Martin McMurray, Matthew Monahan, Martha Mysko, Michelle Segre, Shinique Smith, William Stone, and Johannes VanDerBeek.

Gilda Snowden, Album: A Retrospective 1977-2010, October 2014, Oakland University Art Gallery.

The Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, January 2013, Oakland University Art Gallery, featuring: Michaël Borremans, Noah Becker, Jeff Burton, Andrew Bush, Kent Dorn, Charlotte Dumas, Anh Duong, Pierre Gonnord, Debbie Grossman, Andrew Guenther, Rosemary Laing, Loretta Lux, The Sartorialist (Scott Schuman), David Shrigley, Tereza Vlckova, Matthew Watson, Nicole Wittenberg, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. 

Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, January 2012, Oakland University Art, featuring: Kevin Baker, Trudy Benson, Katherine Bernhardt, Cecily Brown, Matt Connors, Jesse Chapman, Kim Dorland, Mark Flood, Rosy Keyser, José Lerma, Dasha Shishkin, Josh Smith, Denyse Thomasos, Wendy White.

Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, March 2010, Oakland University Art Gallery, featuring: Jonathan Allen, Michael Anderson, Chambliss Giobbi, David LaChapelle, George Rahme, Matthew Cusick, Holli Schorno, Maritta Tapanainen, Mark Wagner.

The Art of the Artist’s Book, January 2010, Oakland University Art Gallery, featuring: Lynne Avadenka, Matthew Barney, IAIN BAXTER&, Christian Boltanski, Susan Goethel Campbell, Sir Anthony Caro, Vija Celmins, Ed Fraga, Jane Hammond, Chido Johnson, Dennis Michael Jones, R. B. Kitaj, David Lambert, Ronald Allen Leax, Donald Lipski, Kathleen McShane, Eric Mesko, Sabrina Nelson, Matthew Shlian, Kiki Smith, Michael E. Smith, Jill Sylvia, Stella Waitzkin, Kara Walker, Peter Williams.

Seminal Works from the N’Namdi Collection of African American Art, September 2008, Oakland University Art Gallery, featuring: Charles Alston, Emanoel Araújo, Romare Bearden, Chakiai Booker, Frank Bowling, Carol Ann Carter, Nanette Carter, Ed Clark, Robert Colescott, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gillian, David Hammons, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Rashid Johnson, Phyllis Diane Jones, Artis Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Alvin Loving, Richard Mayhew, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee, Tyrone Mitchell, Vincente Pimentel, Howardena Pindell, Betty Saar, Raymond Saunders, John Scott, Charles Searles, Vincent Smith, Bob Thompson, Jack Whitten, Bernard Williams, William T. Williams.

Selected Bibliography
  • “Image and the Photographic Allusion @ OUAG, by Ron Scott, detroitartreview.com, February 25, 2022.
  • “The Pescovitz Collection at the Oakland University Art Gallery,” by Ron Scott, detroitartreview.com, September 22, 2021.
  • “Historic American Paintings at the OUAG,” by Ron Scott, detroitartreview.com, January 12, 2020.
  • “Paradise Found at Oakland University’s Art Exhibit,” by Suzanne Chessler, The Detroit Jewish News, August 28, 2019.
  • “Fall Exhibitions at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center,” by Ron Scott, detroitartreview.com, September 13, 2018.
  • “Rochester, Michigan, Cody VanderKaay,” by Julie Willis, Sculpture Magazine, November 2017.
  • Oakland University Exhibit Highlights the Fragile and Fading Beauty of Flowers,” by Sarah Sharp, culturesource.org, January 26, 2017.
  • “Carlos Rolón/Dzine, Commonwealth at Oakland University Art Gallery,” by Renee Taylor, arts.black, April 3, 2016.
  • “Carlos Rolón/Dzine @ OUAG,” by Ron Scott, detroitartsreview.com, January 27, 2016.
  • “Forceful Still Lifes,” by Michael Hodges, The Detroit News, March 3, 2015.
  • “The Four Horsemen of Detroit,” by Lynn Crawford, hyperallergic.com, October 20, 2012.
  • “06-09-11, Last week – NYC, Live from Detroit” C-Monster.net, June 6, 2011.
  • “Art Motors On,” by Linda Yablonsky, W Magazine, November 2011.
  • “Images Jiggle Lens on Reality,” by Michael Hodges, The Detroit News, February 17, 2011.
  • “Book Art is a Treat for the Eyes at Oakland University Gallery,” by Mike Hodges, The Detroit News, January 14, 2010.
  • “Chido Johnson,” by Kathy Zarur, Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 6, July/August 2009
  • “(Recent) Art History: N’Namdi Shares His Collection with Oakland University,” by Michael Hodges, The Detroit News, October 9, 2008.
  • “James Stephens at the Oakland University Art Gallery,” by Vince Carducci, Art in America, April 2008.