Exhibitions
Great Plains Grandeur
Solo Exhibition At the Bowlus Center in Iola, Kansas
Jonathan Goodding Solo Exhibition
Mary L. Martin Gallery, Bowlus Center, Iola KS
Friday, February 7-March 28, 2025
Artist’s Reception on February 7, 2025 at 5pm
Gallery Location and Hours
Bowlus Center
205 E Madison Ave.
Iola, KS 66749
Phone: 620.365.4765
Hours of Operation:
Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Artist’s Statement
The fields of the American Great Plains can be modest and unassuming. Yet above the landscape, the wide-open sky hosts striking displays of power and beauty, often so fleeting that mere moments later, when the winds have blown a little further or the sun has sunk slightly lower on the horizon, we are left to wonder what it is we just experienced.
Though the grandeur that God displays in the skies of the plains cannot be fully captured in a painting, the energy, color and forms of the sky should be celebrated, and the moments when we are made to feel small in comparison, remembered.
Past Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition: Beneath the Wide-Open
Expressing the energy, form, and grandeur of the Midwestern Sky
Red Cloud Opera House Gallery, The National Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, Nebraska
Tuesday, Mar 19 – Saturday, May 11, 2024
“The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to welcome oil painter Jonathan Goodding to the Red Cloud Opera House gallery this spring! Goodding’s paintings capture the energy and wonder of the ever-changing Great Plains sky. With vigorous marks and bold colors, native-Nebraskan Goodding recreates a dynamic and awesome horizon that is familiar to residents of the state.”
PACE New Masters 2023
May-September 2023
Jonathan’s painting Formations, Mid-Summer was accepted into this regional juried show at the Hoff Center in Council Bluffs Iowa.
Life in Nebraska
April 2023
Jonathan’s paintings Morning Stormclouds No. 1 and Formations, Early Summer were accepted into this regional juried show at the Cottonwood Gallery in Aurora, Nebraska.
Solo Exhibition: Marking the Prairie Sublime
January – April 2012, Great Plains Art Museum
This solo exhibition at the Great Plains Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska featured much of Jonathan’s early work and was paired with an exhibition from the gallery’s permanent collection titled “Transported with Wonder.”
Coverage: Lincoln Journal Star: Jonathan Goodding seeks the sublime…
UNL News: New exhibitions explore Great Plains landscapes