Lunch on Fridays: Dale Goode

Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. Each lecture features a variety of artists and designers from around the world, including CIA faculty and visiting artists. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza and beverages will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Glenville-based artist Dale Goode will discuss his recent commission created for FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art and the history of his studio practice.

Dale was born in Cleveland and has lived his entire life in the city. He has deep connections to his community and the regional art world. A painter, sculptor, and muralist, he has shown his work widely in Northeast Ohio over several decades. The famed boxing promoter, Don King, once commissioned Dale to paint a mural, “Apostles of Peace,” showing the faces of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jimmy Carter.

His current work, the result of “a 20-year implosion of trial and error in {his} studio laboratory,” reflects what Dale feels is his true creative voice. His wall relief sculptures are made of clothing and other items his neighbors have discarded: Windows, doors, lengths of picket fence, shoes, skates, umbrellas, hats, mops, shovels, etc. All of this is composed suggestively and coated with layers of enamel spray paint (often gold or bronze).

His work is in many major corporate collections (Progressive Insurance) in the Great Lakes Region as well as the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.

Goode graduated from Hiram College and matriculated at Kent State MFA program.