Biography
Courtney is a multidisciplinary artist currently working in Dallas/Ft. Worth. She began her artistic career on the Mississippi Gulf coast until Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005. Courtney received her BFA from the University of Wyoming in 2012 and her MFA from the University of Dallas in 2018.
Her personal studio practice begins with drawing and printmaking (primarily relief print processes); movement or dance, photography, video, and collage are later integrated into a finished piece. Often a body of work will be exhibited as an installation, allowing viewers to experience her work outside the frame.
She has taught various art classes from high school to the university level since 2017. Those classes have included Printmaking, Digital Media, Contemporary Art History, and Art Appreciation. In the summers she leads printmaking and book arts workshops at Mudhouse Residency in Crete, Greece.
Courtney is also a designer. She creates patterns for textile work and has pieces for sale at J Laurie Shoe Boutique in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. These patterns are often inspired by art history and the reduction prints from her personal body of work.
Courtney has exhibited her work all over Dallas-Fort Worth as well as Wyoming, Mississippi, Montana, Alaska, Indiana, Louisiana, and Utah. Her work has also been seen in Bangladesh, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Greece.
Her prints have been published in several issues of The Hand Magazine between 2016 - 2021.
In 2018 and 2020, she had interviews published in Voyage Dallas and Shoutout DFW; you can also read her newest interview in Canvas Rebel from September 2023.
https://voyagedallas.com/interview/check-courtney-nicole-googes-artwork/
https://shoutoutdfw.com/meet-courtney-nicole-googe-artist-teacher/
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-courtney-nicole-googe/
In addition to visual work, she is also a movement artist. Initially, she began incorporating movement into her practice as a way to present and document wearable art. However, for the past 5 years she has been training as a pole dancer. Now, much of the figure references for her visual art is directly influenced by the shapes she creates with her body in the pole studio. She has performed locally and in Manhattan. Courtney goes by the pseudonym Spice at Skypole Fitness, where she is an instructor.
She currently lives in Arlington, Texas with her husband, two daughters, and two cats (Lascaux and Winchester).
Artist Statement
My work is autobiographical; I strive to reach deep and be genuine in expressing my life experiences in a way that encourages my viewers to reflect upon their own life or inspires them to do something new.
These experiences challenge me mentally, emotionally, and even physically. Traveling far from home and exploring new ways to move my body are some ways I challenge myself. So far in 2011 I spent a month in North India, in 2017 I developed and executed a 5-day performance piece involving a trip to Roswell, New Mexico, and in 2018 attended an artist residency in Crete, Greece (where I have since returned as a instructor). I have balanced on a roof under a humid summer moon, braced myself in a decaying doorway, tiptoed along the edge of a cliff, hung upside down by my hands over crashing waves, danced in the middle of the desert at dawn, and done yoga in the street while wearing an old gas mask.
The way I choose to live my life will ultimately be my greatest work of art. I process these events through the creation of imagery that pairs the body with something abstract- like a pattern, setting, or costume. I strive to allow myself to be unguarded in the studio, so that my work may contribute to the current conversation regarding social issues and mental health.
My subjects include my body, my familiar, abstract patterns, and still-life.
I view the body as a vehicle that contains and protects me during my existence on Earth, creating a separation between my spirit and my flesh. This allows me to use the body as an object in my work, mixing it with abstract patterns or dreamlike spaces.
My familiar (often a cat) becomes used in a similar way, like another form of myself. By using an animal form, I can explore more childlike or absurd, possibly profound, expressions of self.
My patterns are often inspired by art history, or my environment. Recently their designs have been heavily influenced by my time in Greece and that ancient history and mythology. Symbolically I’m considering the patterns we create for ourselves, the routines and structures we maintain in our daily lives, sometimes just so we can keep going day by day. Those habits become a part of our identity, so I wrap the body in the patterns, sometimes hiding the figure, camouflaging the figure, or sometimes exposing the figure freed from the pattern.
If I view the body as an object, then everyday objects become important as well. I have always found myself drawn to interesting collections of objects or singular objects depicted throughout art history. What makes that object special? What story or history is connected to it? How do we impose our own stories and histories to the objects around us? How arbitrarily or symbolically can we represent our life in that one moment?
Moving forward in my work I am experimenting with combining these subjects; just as we exist within the specific and layered structures of time and space, my figure is intentionally placed within the organized image with the pattern and other objects which are metaphors for the self.
I am a printmaker who primarily uses the reduction process with woodcuts or linoleum, but does not limit myself to printmaking alone. When I create and work with multiples, it allows me to experiment with a variety of additional processes and materials to create not only 2-dimensional works, but also 3-dimensional, and the occasional 4-dimensional (time-based) piece within a series. The process of combining traditional relief printmaking techniques with performance, photography, drawing, or digital applications further allows me to consider that which is objective and recognizable with something more psychological.
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EDUCATION
2018
Master of Fine Arts in Art; University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2016
Master of Arts in Art; University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2013
Post-Baccalaureate in Printmaking; University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
2012
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Minor in Museum Studies; summa cum laude
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
2011
Internship, Historic Laramie Railroad Depot, Laramie, WY
Workshop, Block printing on fabric, New Delhi, India
Workshop, Terra cotta tile, Santinikaten, India
2010
Preservation Training, Laramie Plains Museum, Laramie, WY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Presence: Members Show, The MAC Dallas, TX
Chaos 9, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
Earth Day 2023: Paintings and Assemblages, Jaycee Park Center for the Arts, Irving, TX
(Curator: Junanne Peck)
Have a Safe Space! (or how to be vulnerable and unapologetic), ArtTooth’s Art
Container, Fort Worth, TX
Artist/Dancer, Skypole Fitness, Fort Worth, TX
2022
Super Fresh, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
Have a Safe Space! (or how to be vulnerable and unapologetic), Solo exhibition, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX
Chaos 8, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
Mudhouse Exhibition, Session II, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Refuge: Members Show, The MAC, Dallas, TX
Featured Artist, BLANC Studio, Fort Worth, TX
2021
Together: Members Show, The MAC, Dallas, TX
Mudhouse Exhibition, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Three-Headed-Sugar-Monster, Mother/Daughter Exhibition, Dough Boy Donuts, Burleson, TX
2020
Ro2 Presents, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
Three-Headed Sugar Monster, Mother/Daughter Exhibition, Loggia Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
My Corona, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
North Texas Food Bank Art Auction, Dallas, TX
Mudhouse Alumni Salon, Shoestring Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Chaos! 7, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
Assembly: Members Show, The MAC, Dallas, TX
Down the Up Road, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Mudhouse Exhibition, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Mayjoring in Art; Educators, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Return of the Piranha Printmakers, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
Bon a’ Tirer: Printmaking Invitational, Hammond Regional Art Center, Hammond, LA
How Do You..., Installation, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2018
The State of In-Equality, MAPC, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Chaos! 2018, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
Mudhouse Artists 2018, Exhibition Space, Agios Ioannis, Lasithi, Crete, Greece
Insecta-Rays and a Game of Charades, Two-Person Exhibition, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
Women's Work, Group Exhibition, SP/N Gallery at the University of Texas, Dallas, TX
Spin, Solo MFA Thesis Exhibition, Jen Mauldin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017
Loose Women, Group Exhibition, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
Haggerty Expo 2017, Group Exhibition, Upper Gallery East, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Bring Your Own Beamer, One-Night Event, The MAC, Dallas, TX
Dallas Piranha Printmakers, Group Exhibition, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 National Printmaking Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition, Mark Arts, Wichita, KS
Hot and Sweaty, Group Exhibition, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Pleased to Meet You..., Juried Group Exhibition, Open Space Dallas, Dallas, TX
Onward Forward, Juried Group Exhibition, Beatrice Haggerty Gallery, Irving, TX
2016
Dwellings for Daydreams, Solo MA Thesis Exhibition, Upper Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Haggerty Expo 2016, Group Exhibition, Upper Gallery East, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Seacourt's International Mini Print Biennial, FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, UK and Down Art Centre, Downpatrick, UK
No Empty Spaces, Group Exhibition, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
Microgallery, Group Exhibition, Umbrella Gallery, Dallas, TX
All About Paper, 37th Juried Exhibit, WaterWorks Art Museum, Miles City, MT
2015
Framed, Group Exhibition, Mokah Gallery, Dallas, TX
Haggerty Expo, Group Exhibition, Upper Gallery, University of Dallas,
Irving, TX
2013
Selected Works, Group Exhibition, Centennial Complex Gallery, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
2012
Group Show, Laramie County Library, Cheyenne, WY
BFA Show, Visual Arts Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
MetalInk Student Show, Visual Arts Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Group Show, Grand Ave. Pizza, Laramie, WY
37th Annual University of Wyoming Juried Art Exhibition, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
2011
Four or More Show and Auction, Fine Arts Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Grotesques, Solo Exhibition, UP Gallery, Laramie, WY
Seven Laides in India, Group Exhibition, UP Gallery, Laramie, WY
Tigers and Tagore: Reflections on North India, Group Exhibition, Gallery 234, Laramie, WY
Metal Fabulous, Group Exhibition, Gallery 211, Laramie, WY
Group Exhibition, Laramie County Library, Cheyenne, WY
Laramie Map Project, Group Exhibition, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Student Art League Art Show, Group Exhibition, Works of Wyoming Gallery, Laramie, WY
Skutt Peep Show, Juried Group Exhibition, NCECA 24th Annual Conference, Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, FL
Variable impressions, Group Exhibition, Grand Ave. Pizza, Laramie, WY
Salon de Refuse, UP Gallery, Laramie, WY
2010
Four or More Show and Auction, Fine Arts Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Our Stories, Group Exhibition, Laramie County Library, Cheyenne, WY
Honor's House Show, Honor's House, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
35th Annual University of Wyoming Juried Art Exhibition, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Print Exchanges
2018
Mother Matrix, Print Exchange, MAPC
2016
You! Me! Them!, Print Exchange, MAPC
2015
Animalia 2015, Print Exchange, Australia
PrintAustin: First Annual Print Exchange, Austin, TX
2014
Crow, Wild Friends Print Exchange, Kanab, UT
2013
Temptation, 13th Annual Postcard Print Exchange, Ames IA
Who We Are, Print Exchange, Bangladesh
2012
Wild Ink, Print Exchange, Anchorage, AK
Commissions
2023
Gorgeous Jade, Portrait Drawing, Private Art Commission
Princess Studio Wall Painted Mural, Skypole Fitness, Fort Worth, TX
2022
WordSpace Dallas, LitHop 2022(poster), Dallas, TX
Instructor Illustrations, Skypole Fitness, Fort Worth, TX
2020
Puffin, Mask, Private Art Commission
Famous Skypole Wall, Painted Mural, Skypole Fitness, Fort Worth, TX
2017
Atomic-Cosmic Candy-Coated Particles from Space, Public Art Project, Bishop Arts District, Dallas, TX
2012
Wyoming Riverlife, Printed Mural, Biology Building, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
2011
Pecan Pie, Artist Book, Coe Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Lectures and Workshops
2023
Repetitive Pattern and Book Binding [workshop], Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Have A Safe Space! (or how to be vulnerable and unapologetic) [artist talk and performance],
ArtTooth’s Art Container, Fort Worth, TX
2022
RRR Printmaking [workshop], Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Devil Devil [pole performance], Lindsey Adelman Studios, New York City, NY
2021
RRR Printmaking [workshop], Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
2019
RRR Printmaking [workshop], Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Simple Intermedia Animation [workshop], Mudhouse Residency, Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Printmaking and Posters [summer camp], ARTroom, Fort Worth, TX
Wayne Thiebaud Inspired Printmaking [workshop], ARTroom, Fort Worth, TX
"How Do You…?" [artist talk], Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
2018
"Making Connections: Visual Art and Pole Dance," Artist Talk, demonstration, and performance, Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Spin," Artist Talk, Jen Mauldin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017
"Printmaking and Technology-Based Art", Mountain View College, Dallas, TX
"Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts," University of Dallas, Irving, TX
"How Printmaking Works: Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2013
Xerox Lithography Workshop for the High School Art Intensive, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
2010
Art History Speaker for the High School Art Intensive, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
2009
Art History Speaker for the High School Art Intensive, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
View Full CV HERE
CONTACT
Please feel free to contact me at:
courtneyngooge@gmail.com
Or find me on instagram!
@courtneynicolegooge
You may also find more about me and my work at:
Where Are The Woman Artists?
The MAC
Printmaking
Art Appreciation
Book Arts
Digital Art
Ceramics
Art History
Pole Fitness
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Lectures
Workshops
Summer Camps
High School
College
Reduction Relief Printmaking Workshop
@ Mudhouse Residency in Crete, Summer 2019
Focus on blend rolls and registration
Learning occurs when something the student did not know connects with something they already do know, and is the job of the teacher to build on that base of knowledge. It is important to understand each individual’s perspective and make the material relevant to them specifically. Applying this ideology in a studio class, for example, a student may not know much about printmaking, but if they know something about painting, a monotype project can connect the two processes.
Personally, I struggled with learning in the “traditional way” through reading textbooks and listening to lectures (regardless of the subject at hand). But if the professor could connect the topic to something more immediate in my life- I retained and was able to apply that new information successfully. I try to do the same for my students now. When I had introduced typography to my art appreciation students, we discussed the topic as it pertained to a popular Netflix series at the time, Stranger Things. When I introduced the same subject during a design-based discussion in another class, I used road signs as the example (and now I have a student that cannot “unsee” the importance of typography in all text she comes across!)
My goal as a teacher is to get the student excited about something they didn’t know before. Being passionate about what I am teaching is such an important part. My most successful teachers have been incredibly enthusiastic about their subjects, and I have found that is contagious to the class. Even if some students are having a hard time understanding certain elements, a genuine excitement will push them to keep learning and trying to understand. Let's make learning an activity where students actually WANT to actively participate. When students get excited and tell me stories about their life that are strongly connected to something they have learned or discovered, that is a good day.
Practically, I believe that learning preparation and cleanup are some of the first things one should learn when entering a studio for the first time. Philosophically, I believe students need a big picture view of the discipline from the beginning. What is printmaking in general? And how is it broken down? What does it offer that other processes does not? (And currently, how does digital art fit under the umbrella of printmaking?) Then we can get down into the details.
When I teach Printmaking I, we focus on understanding the equation of ink + pressure = print. Then we can initially explore that balance through monotype and pressure printing. This also allows some freedom to play in a way that they may be more familiar with, such as painting or drawing. We can also take this time to learn about ink, tack, transparency, colors, and layering before we dive into the specific processes of relief or intaglio or lithography, which require more constraint and structure.
For graduate students the approach is more hands-off- however, there is a project that I would have them complete during their time in school. Taking a single, simple image or subject, and creating a print of that image in many different processes: monotype, pressure, relief, drypoint, aquatint, lithography, screenprint, and digitally. With these 8 editions of the same subject, the graduate student develops a keen awareness of how they approach each of the most common printmaking processes as well as being able to leave with a solid example of how to demonstrate each of those processes for future teaching assignments or workshops. Or if they don’t want to teach, to simply better understand themselves as a printmaker.
I present printmaking as a media full of possibilities and potential, and I suggest digital media as a “glue” that can bring a variety of materials and techniques together. As we explore the notion of the matrix through traditional techniques, the computer and digital printer is simply another matrix for more possibilities in making art.
I want the printshop to be a place to return to- to experiment, to think, and sometimes, to just breathe.
Simple Intermedia Animation Workshop
@ Mudhouse Residency in Crete, Summer 2019
Focus on using photoshop as an introduction in combining traditional 2D media with digital applications
Wayne Thiebaud Inspired Saturday Workshop
@ ARTroom in Fort Worth, Texas, Spring 2019
Focus on a blend roll 2 layer reduction print based on a cupcake still-life- included introduction to Wayne Thiebaud
www.mudhouseresidency.com
@mudhouseart
July 7 - July 24, 2018 (Studio Artist)
July 5 - July 23, 2019 (Printmaking Instructor)
July 5 - July 19, 2021 (Printmaking Instructor)
June 27 - July 10, 2022 (Printmaking Instructor)
July 2 - July 16, 2023 (Printmaking and Book Arts Instructor)
Sunrise over the Mediterranean; arriving to Crete.
During my time as a visiting artist, I finished several small works, collaborated with a local poet, attempted to swim to an island, actually did swim in the Libyan Sea with the bioluminescent plankton, and ate my weight in Mediterranean cuisine.
I have been honored to return each summer as their printmaking instructor. It has been fabulous to meet new artists each time and inspire others with my passion for printmaking. Honestly, it is just incredible to be re-invigorated creatively by such a place as Crete.
Photo Credit: Kate Stone
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Handmade Journals for Crete
I love making little sketchbooks and journals; each year I prepare a new little book to fill up with little moments, little illustrations of my time in Greece that summer.
They are a hard cover with a simple pamphlet stitch. I often use Lokta paper from Nepal (my favorite) for the cover. I also like to play with the shape of the book and sometimes include different notations along the edge.
Book Cover examples
Title Page / Interior
Ongoing Grecian Inspirations
Because of my time in Crete, I often incorporate elements of Minoan art into my own imagery, of which patterns and acrobatic figures are the most influential.
Lines and geometric shapes and patterns represent the human need to create structure, as time and space are chaotic without this artificial sense of security that comes from order.
I may share how my body that inhabits this structure, in some ways mocking this artificiality that is created to hide feelings of vulnerability- that we are really nothing in the big picture of everything.
In the past years my inspiration has been the Minoan Snake Goddess; she has kept her power through the centuries in order to guide and influence artists, historians, and people of all ages and cultures.
This year I decided to begin to venture into new territory, inspired by my Safe Space work, I am beginning to explore more characters: Medusa, Pandora, and the victims of Zeus. They do have quite a bit in common, and in relation to women's issues of today....
My Other (Still) Life
A work in progress.
Presently I am beginning a new body of work focusing on the still-life. Upon returning from my most recent visit to Crete, I have decided to create images inspired by my two lives (when I am in Texas and when I am in Greece.) These relief printed still-lifes illustrate the similar moments that occur in hopes to build a stronger relationship between countries and cultures.
The notion of the still-life has always interested me.
The human race has been making and gathering "things" for thousands of years, and our connection and collection to various objects has only increased.
My art historical interest in the still-life is currently focused on its relation to Pop Art, and I have been pursuing the book "The Pop Object : The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art" by John Wilmerding.
A Slice of Cherry Pie in Fort Worth, 2023
6 layer reduction relief print on Lokta paper
A Tit and a Lemon Cake in Athens, 2023
6 layer reduction relief print on Lokta paper
Things I Set on Varvara's Table, 2023
7 layer reduction relief print on Lokta paper
I like to balance my illustrative examination of representational objects with the development of abstract pattern.
My patterns are inspired by many things; Minoan pottery and frescos, fabrics, architecture, and the circus. I often use pattern as a way to illustrate concepts of routine and structure in our lives (or our minds).
I like to take my printed patterns and manipulate them or "remix" them digitally.
Sometimes I will combine these patterns with my representational objects, figures, or scenes. I like to combine processes in this way- printmaking with photography or textiles, or even performance, as I occasionally makes these patterns wearable.
Photo by Jaime Borschuk
A False Sense
2021
collage, reduction relief prints, handmade paper, aerosol paint
Sketchbooks and Artist Books
Exploring Venus
2023
This is a little hardcover sketchbook I had prepared for figure drawing during the summer of 2023. The cover features a reduction relief printed mermaid.
For the 2021-2022 school year, I was invited to be the Artist-in-Residence at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas.
My solo exhibition, Have a Safe Space! (or how to be vulnerable and unapologetic) was on view at the Carillon Gallery September 2022 and exhibited in the ArtTooth Art Container in January 2023.
Click HERE to walk through the exhibition installed at the Carillon Gallery.
RESOURCES
Mental Health/Suicide Hotline call 988 or visit https://988lifeline.org/
Women’s Health Organization visit https://www.womenshealth.gov/
National Sexual Assault Hotline call 800.656.4673 or visit https://www.rainn.org/
Eating Disorder Hotline call or text 800.931.2237 or visit https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline
Why do we need Safe Spaces?
photograph of performance
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Courtney Nicole Googe is ever transforming.
Having a father in the Navy meant Courtney moved around a lot during her childhood. She was an only child whose most constant companion was her pet cat. Nothing brought her more comfort than sitting in her blanket fort with the current feline, watching cartoons, and making things out of paper.
Over the last few years, Courtney’s therapy sessions forced her to embrace parts of her past that were often denied. Depression and anxiety have been persistent shadows for decades, intentionally ignored until they couldn’t be denied any longer. She learned new words like “depersonalization” and “body dysmorphia” which often were results of unresolved trauma.
Alongside these therapy sessions, Courtney continued to explore vulnerability in her visual work, but with more intensity. Global health and social issues have opened the door for discussions about “safe spaces” and people’s need for them. Courtney remembered her blanket forts….. For her they were spaces of comfort, inspiration, and energy.
Courtney’s work is autobiographical; by allowing herself to be unguarded in the studio, her work contributes to the current conversation regarding social issues and mental health.
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I Want to be Like Her II
reduction-relief print/private performance
oil-based ink on a photograph
The Body Keeps Watch (like Argus) II
reduction-relief print
oil-based ink, latex paint, gel pen, CMYK marker, paper, glue on wood
I like to use the term "fourth dimension" to include the element of time; this includes animations, video art, and performance.
Mediterranean Mermaids
Performances 2021 and 2022
Video with animation 2023
Abandoned Cheese Factory Villain
2022
Video included in exhibition in Agios Ioannis, Crete
Thank you Madalen Duke for the musical accompaniment!
Have a Safe Space! (or how to be vulnerable and unapologetic)
2022
Video included in solo exhibition at the Carillon Gallery
Self-Portrait as Argus
2021-2022
(stop-motion clip)
Silent
Performance Summer 2021
Video Spring 2022
Contemporary Snake Goddess (in Crete)
Performance Summer 2021
Thank you, Hidden Citizens, for the musical accompaniment!
Refuge in the Wind
Performance Summer 2021
Thank you, Zack Hemsey, for the musical accompaniment!
Pandemic Googe Family Circus
Performance and video.
Animated credits begins at 20m 12s
Collaboration with Hank Googe, Gretchen Googe, and Hazel Googe
2020
Minoan Dolphin
Collaged Animation Demonstration
Summer 2019
Do I...: Performance and Video
Performance Summer 2018
Video Winter 2019
Thank you, Rose Riebl, for the beautiful musical accompaniment!
Vertigo Charade (Performance) Visual Art and Pole Dance
Spring 2018
In.Vulnerable: Performance, Animation, and Video
Summer 2017
Based on Actual Events
MA Thesis Animation
Spring 2018
The Artist's Search for What?
Documentation of 5- day journey
from Dallas to Roswell and back again.
June 2017
Callibotte Inspired: Animation 2
Spring 2016
Thank you 2Cellos for the perfect musical accompaniment.
Octopus Sack Manifesto: Performance and Writing
Fall 2015
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Lindsey Adelman Studios, NYC, NY
Spring 2022
Photo Credit : Lindsey Adelman
Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Summer 2019
Photo Credit : Kate Stone
Agios Ioannis, Crete, Greece
Summer 2018
Dallas, TX
Spring 2018
Past Projects
ARTIST / DANCER
A Pop-Up Exhibition at SkyPole Fitness
February 5th, 2023
Local artist Courtney Nicole Googe exhibited her figurative work at Skypole Fitness for a special one-day only pop-up event!
Artist/Dancer was an exhibition where the two passions of Courtney’s practice came together in the same space. This was the opportunity to view (and collect!) a compilation of original prints in the pole dance studio where Courtney finds inspiration.
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YOU ARE A GODDESS
As a designer I have been exploring ways of making my prints more accessible...ways that allow anyone to wrap their own body in my patterns.
Introducing......
The You Are A Goddess scarves
Broken Patchwork
I have taken my traditional reduction-relief prints and digitally remixed them to create these Minoan-inspired sheer wrappings for the body.
In November of 2022 I was honored to photograph my scarves on these gorgeous goddesses in Fort Worth, TX!
Minoan Inspired
Orange Chevron
Minoan Green Stripe
Circles of Pattern
The Seas
Squares Pattern
They are 55 inches square polyester, and there are more patterns coming!
You can find them at:
JLaurie Shoe Boutique
628 Washington Ave,
Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Not in Mississippi???
Contact me at courtneyngooge@gmail.com for more ways to order!
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COVID PROJECTS
The year 2020 threw us all into chaos and I found myself responding with anxiety to the situation in which we were living-
Beginning in March through spring and into the first parts of summer, I designed a project that forced me into the world, yet away from people. I grabbed my grandfather-in-law's old gas mask, my camera, and some hot coffee to venture out two mornings a week and document some play in these empty spaces I discovered while driving around.
My amateur skills in dance allowed me to use my body uniquely as the subject in these photos.
It also allowed me to express my restless energy in a very physical way while documenting the shapes and images I was creating.
In addition to these performances and photographs, I decided to use the mask mandate as an opportunity to add humor to our lives- to bring a smile to someone's face as I braved the store in search of toilet paper and eggs. I was inspired initially by the infamous beaked plague mask, but eventually, each mask just became whatever silly thing I could think of!
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THREE-HEADED SUGAR MONSTER
See the Virtual Exhibition at the University of Dallas from September 2020.
Follow the tag #threeheadedsugarmonster on Instagram!
Three-Headed-Sugar-Monster began as a year-long illustration project originally inspired by contemporary artist Wayne Thiebaud. I wanted to create the opportunity to support local businesses and for my two daughters to practice drawing while learning more about contemporary art, drawing, and printmaking.
We visited one business a month in 2019.
January: Emporium Pies
February: MELT Ice Cream
March: Chelles
April: Val's Cheesecakes
May: Fattoush Mediterranean Kitchen (Baklava)
June: Press Waffle Co.
July: Picole Pops
August: StirCrazy Baked Goods
September: OddFellows (Beignets)
October: Dude, Sweet Chocolate
November: Urban Sugar
December: Whisk Crepes
To see ALL the prints in person, visit:
DoughBoy Donuts
291 W. Hidden Creek Pkwy,
Burleson Tx 76028
Get you a super yummy donut and tell them Courtney send you!
Three-Headed Sugar Monster grew during COVID.
New businesses were recommended and we tried new treats and made more drawings!
October 2020: DoughBoy Donuts
November 2020: Loft22
December 2020: Planted Bakery
January 2021: Avery's Popcorn
February 2021: Spiral Diner & Bakery
March 2021: Black Cat Pizza (Cannolis)
April 2021: Black Coffee
May 2021: Hot Box Biscuit Club
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Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
SPIN
February 24 - March 17, 2018
*Selected works can also be seen on Artsy
Jen Mauldin Gallery
Dallas, Texas
"Spin showcases a body of work based on the artist’s subconscious response to life's unexpected moments. Courtney is interested in the inevitable psychological transformation that follows a sudden realization, as illustrated through the "spin" or the spiral. Using imaginative dream-like imagery, she translates these times of uncertainty and transition by representing the movement between the moments."
"In true surrealist fashion, she attempts to subtly connect the worlds of reality and fantasy through photographic images of real places with layers of intuitional drawing and collage that represents the realm of the imagination. This connection is more integrated in the presentation; there is no glass barrier between the image and the viewer, as the surreal image exists in real space as an object."
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Master of Arts Thesis Exhibition
DWELLINGS FOR DAYDREAMS
November 9-17, 2016
Upper Gallery
University of Dallas
1845 East Northgate Drive
Irving, Texas
Artist Statement
“...Attain to the plane of the daydreams that we used to have in the places identified with our solitude.” ~ Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
In four contained installations, this exhibition explores the dichotomy of childhood and adulthood with relation to physical and metaphorical place.
Using the body as a metaphor for the house, the internalized emotions and daydreams become representative of the feelings of “home.”
The Dwelling
Gaston Bachelard, a 20th century French philosopher, explains in The Poetics of Space, that the house is to be experienced in “its reality and in its virtuality, by means of thought and dreams.”
My house changed frequently as a child, so I sought stability in my own designed space, often physically through the creation of blanket-tents. Reflecting on my childhood as an adult, I seek the origins of my identity.
In this presentation, each structure is constructed from sheets, a child’s first line of defense against ghosts, monsters, bad news, and parents that turn off the light. The tent also implies the impermanence of the house or home setting. Smaller objects inhabit the interiors, inspired by the things I would create based on my childhood daydreams.
The Daydreams
Contemporary psychology emphasizes the importance of daydreaming, especially in children. And before the age of ten, those daydreams can be expressed in a physical or vocal way, through making and through play. The world created in those daydreams can be more real to a child than the concrete environment around them. Even as an adult, that world still undeniably exists in my mind.
Daydreams are often a mix of reality and fantasy, and so are these four contained installations as they illustrate abstract ideas like fear or anxiety, dreams of the future, desire/escapism, and the feeling of life being out of control. Often the subject of daydreams, these emotions continue with slight changes, from childhood to adulthood.
