Miles Cleveland Goodwin:  The Maze
January 14 – February 11, 2017 

Valley House Gallery is pleased to present our second exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Mississippi artist Miles Cleveland Goodwin.  Working in his open-air studio, Miles Cleveland Goodwin is deeply in touch with the rural landscape. Goodwin’s ruminative portrayals, full of earthy metaphor and soulful intuition, engage us in reciprocal story-telling in the spirit of the literature of the Deep South. Goodwin earned his BFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, later returning to Mississippi - to the land and people he knows so well.  About this body of work, Goodwin states:

'I live in a small town in central Mississippi. A place where the woods are swallowing homes like snakes eat eggs; they travel down the winding body of the highway roads. I live here because there is a sense of the old world, old ways of doing things - rough hands and bright souls. One is forced to be resourceful, to look at nature as a tool, a friend. My work has always reflected my surroundings. I try to listen instead of speak. As in nature, the seed exists, the plan is placed – we must try to help it grow.'

View the exhibition online at www.valleyhouse.com