Craig Goodworth

Včela, exhibition at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, included mixed media drawings on paper and panel, bronze casts, and an agricultural found object circa 1900 (bee box shipped from the Slovak Republic).

The companion land-based artwork at Old Cox Butte Cemetery included a piano, hand dug grave and wood ash. CORPUS straddled boundaries between art and science and the human body and the body of earth.

Ecotone Study #3: CORPUS, a collaboration with soil scientist Jay Nollar, is a multi-site exhibition including altered log, piano, soil, rope and video documentation (Corvallis Art Center).

Ucross Studies, documentation from a series of land-based works made from found materials culled on site during a four-week residency on a ranch in Clearmont, Wyoming.

Playa Studies: Earth as body/Body as earth, is documentation from a series of land-based works made during a four-week residency in Oregon’s Great Basin Desert.

Exploring decay and symbology rooted in the natural world, “Kosť & Med” (Bone & Honey), was an exhibition consisting of raw and found materials, and the written word, at Duplex Gallery, Portland, OR.

A series of on-site projections in the village of Vavrisovo, Slovakia. This series was companion to the exhibition Ecotone Study #2: LIPTOV at Galeria P.M. Bohuna in Liptovsky Mikolas.

The second in a series of collaborative installations with Oregon artist Andrew Meyers. Ecotone Study #2 was shown at Galeria P.M. Bohuna in Liptovsky Mikolas, Slovakia. Companion to the exhibition were a series of on-site projections in the village of Vavrisovo.

Fire Renderings in Fires of Change: the Art of Fire Science Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona and University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.
 With Ponderosa logs and a milled slab collected from a burn site in Northeastern Arizona, I worked directly with fire to alter raw material. The slab is filled with cinders collected from Red Mountain and pot ash.

VČELA: Blood & Honey an installation at Oregon State University made up of 9 bronze casts, 104 drawings and 6 poems. Drawing from the forests of the Willamette Valley and Central Europe, this is the stateside companion exhibition to Blood and Honey (Gallery Statue, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2015).

Blood and Honey an installation at Gallery Statua, Bratislava, Slovakia. Curated by Xenia Lettrichova, this exhibition included sculpture, object and installation.

9 KORYTOS was a site-specific installation in a city square in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia. A series of 9 sculpted objects (troughs) were placed in front of Liptovská Galéria P.M. Bohúňa and an historic church during Lent.

Displayed in the tradition of Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer, “Select Artifacts” and sculptural forms was curated for “Curios & Curiosities: Interpreting the Natural and Cultural Worlds” Bush Barn Art Center’s Salem, OR.

Ecotone Study #1 (collaboration Andy Myers) consisting of wall drawing, sculpture and installation was part of Project Space 2014 in Salem, OR. The concept of ecological boundary or transition, is the basis or ground of our collaboration.

Včela is an installation and reading in Project Space (Salem, Oregon) investigating honeybees, community and decay. Materials included: 75 drawings, 48 hollow logs, orchard ladder, wood ash, 500 bee carcasses, honeycomb, sculpted object, five bottles of mead wine.

Caldera Open Air Project is an installation in Sisters Oregon composed of drawing and altered found object. The drawings are made of graphite and shellac. The books were shot with 300 WIN MAG and 22 caliber bullets.

Liminal Ground is a place-based installation in a granary warehouse in Phoenix, Arizona, integrating immigrant narratives with agricultural and liturgical elements.  Two events constituted Liminal Ground - a Public Opening (March 31, 2012) and a Palm Sunday service (April 1, 2012).

Liminal is an installation with a performative element. Part of a Pop-Up Exhibition at the intersection of University Avenue West and North Prior Avenue, in St. Paul Minnesota, materials included 327 concrete blocks, rope ladder, and Bob Dylan lyric "The Narrow Way."

Ritual in the Dark is a collaborative project with poet/liturgist Travis Poling. Ritual in the Dark was an installation/performance in the Chapel of Bethany Theological Seminary. Content is generated from the overlapping fields of theology, liturgics, and poetry.

Jelen and Other Drawings (2000-2011 ) was an exhibition of drawings, sculptures and artifacts spanning the last ten years.

Saturday was part of a three-gallery exhibition entitled, Sacred Offense. Materials included root masses, steel rods, an elk skull and other artifacts