Membership Spotlight - Amber Goodwin

Amber Goodwin is a Pakistani American artist whose layered textured abstractions explore the relationship between control and intuition, heritage and reinvention.

Raised in the American South by immigrant parents, she grew up navigating the space between cultural preservation and assimilation.  That duality continues to inform her vivid, tactile compositions.  With a background in biology and a career in medical research, she approaches her work with a spirit of observation and experimentation, where chance and structure work in tandem.

Goodwin's work draws from the visual traditions of South Asia, where color, ornament, and repetition carry symbolic weight, as well as the scientific forms she once studied; cells, cycles, systems.  These influences come together in circular motifs and dimensional surfaces that suggest protection, meditation, and memory.

Artist Statement:

I like to express my culture and heritage through vibrant colors.  As a child I always gravitated towards colorful objects and circular shapes.  Today cells, colors and circles play a huge role in my art.  For me you can express your emotions through color and the circular shape represents unity.  

Through careful planning, I like to conceptualize a painting to create a vibrant background and then incorporate heavy texture 3D circular dots.  My curiosity for natural occurring phenomena’s also gives me motive to create circular cell art with intention.  This concept allows me to create a unique pattern with texture.  

My goal is to communicate joy and happiness as well as positivity with my audience.