Dick Goody's exhibition of works on paper runs from August 19 through September 30.

with a reception on Friday September 15th, and a preview Saturday August 26, also from 7 to 10pm

regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday

MONA is located at 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac

tel: 248-210-7560

Dick Goody says that art is “about the look of things versus the problem of ideas.”   Whether his work is about looks, problems, things or ideas, his small pencil drawings, which combine text and image, are studies for larger paintings.  Savage and sarcastic rather than earnest, these emblematic, embryonic images articulate a certain look which unites crudeness and vulnerability with pathos and irony.  Frontal and lush, they exploit paradigms of beauty, banality and sexuality capable of confronting suspect conventional values.

Dick Goody is a painter and an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. 

His painting can be seen on the web at www.markszine.com   He has recently shown work at the District Arts Gallery, Birmingham, MI, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Gallery 555 in Detroit, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit and The Northville Art House.

Goody is also Director of the Oakland University Art Gallery and Curator of the Oakland University Art Collection.  In 2004, he was voted Best Contemporary Curator of Detroit Art, by the Metro Times.  Since 2000, he has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions and written and published more than twenty exhibition catalogues.  His curated exhibitions have been reviewed in periodicals such as Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

Dick Goody was born in Windsor, England. 

He received his MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and his undergraduate degree from Bath Academy of Art in the west of England. He also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Art and Design Education from Middlesex University, London.  Although of sterling character, Mr Goody is a deeply disturbed and troubled man.