Carol Goebel
A woman’s body giving birth does what it wants to do; what it needs to do. The birthing mother is a powerful, instinctual force of nature that doesn’t “shut-up”, that can’t “shut-up” as she delivers a new life, a new self.
Women have high value in any culture for their ability to produce and nurture life. Psychological theory suggests that some men are unconsciously envious of this childbearing ability and thus may need to try to control, disparage, and silence women.
Growing up in southern Ohio, Carol Goebel developed a keen affinity for the natural world. She received a BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. As an early resident of Soho, NYC, she became part of the blossoming women’s movement, having her first show of clay sculpture in 1975. Goebel is an original member of Ceres, a women’s collective gallery, where she has had 14 solo shows. She is also represented by Denise Bibro Fine Arts, NYC. From 1985 to 2008, she created welded metal sculpture using parts of old farm tools and other found metal fragments gleaned from junkyards. Since 2012 she has returned to working in clay, expressing the natural cycle of plant life—emergence, growth, and decay.
Carol Goebel’s sculpture has been reviewed in Arts Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, and Art News Magazine.
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