Jonathan Goodding Solo Exhibition

Red Cloud Opera House Gallery
The National Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, Nebraska
Tuesday, Mar 19 – Saturday, May 11, 2024
Artist’s Reception on April 5, 2024

If Friday doesn’t work for you, I’ll also be at the gallery on Saturday April 6th from 1-3pm.

I’m honored and humbled to have been invited to exhibit my work at the Red Cloud Opera House gallery this spring in Red Cloud, Nebraska. This beautiful gallery is part of the National Willa Cather Center, and I’m really looking forward to seeing my art up on the gallery walls. I’ve been hard at work producing new work for the show, and I would love to meet you there at the Artist’s Reception on April 5 if you’re in the area or willing to make the drive (it’s about 2 1/2 hours from Lincoln). I would love for you to get a chance to see the work in person.

Gallery Location and Hours

National Willa Cather Center
413 North Webster Street
Red Cloud, Nebraska 68970 – USA
Telephone: 402-746-2653

Hours of Operation:
Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The gallery will be open until 6:30pm on April 5 for the Artist Reception.

From the Gallery:

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. 

Artist’s Statement

The plains and fields of the American Midwest can be modest and unassuming. Yet above the landscape, the wide-open sky plays host to 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. 

Perhaps a brush scraping across canvas could mimic the sky’s energy, the mixing of colors its vitality, the forms of a drawing its shape. Perhaps a painting could articulate something beyond mere visual representation—perhaps these expressions could remind us of when the sky made us feel small and pointed to what is greater than we are.