Anima, Animus
205, 2026
Collage
16 3/4 x 12 inches
Awe, 2026
Oil on Canvas
45 x 80 inches
Looking Up, 2024
Oil on Canvas
56 x 42 inches
Fecundity, 2025
Oil on Canvas
92 x 46 inches
No Man Is An Island, 2026
Oil on Canvas
56 x 38 inches
203, 2026
Collage
7 1/2 x 10 inches
Carin, 2023
Oil on Canvas
84 x 28 inches
Letters, 2023
Oil on Canvas
12 x 10 inches
Sisyphus, 2024
Oil on Canvas
60 x 48 inches
17, 2023
Collage
7 x 12 inches
Mandorla, 2026
Oil on Canvas
23 x 44 inches
Alla Prima, 2024
Oil on Collage on Canvas
18 x 64 inches
Early conversations around Anima, Animus began with John Donne’s assertion that “no man is an island,” and an inversion of that idea: showing up to the studio can feel like showing up stranded on an island. Indeed, the only way off the island, and back to our fellow humans, is through the act of making. For Goering, the studio becomes a place for making the unconscious salient and channeling the collective through creation. Goering arrives surrounded by what has accumulated there: objects, images, memories, historical references, unfinished thoughts, and the residue of previous decisions. Through the repeated act of making, these things are rearranged and reconsidered until unexpected relationships begin to surface. They live less like symbols to be decoded than things temporarily possessed by memory, projection, or some unseen interior life.
Taking its title from Carl Jung’s conception of the anima and animus, the exhibition considers the encounter between what is known and what remains obscured within oneself. For Goering, that encounter happens through the material and the intuitive processes of painting and collage. Meaning is not necessarily determined before a work begins. Instead, it is something that can reveal itself through the process of making.
Charlie Goering (b. 1993, Kentucky) received his BFA from the Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, California in 2016, and studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy in 2014. He has been included in group shows nationally and internationally including: Hawkins HQ, Atlanta (2024), Deanna Evans Projects, New York (2021, 2024), MAMA Projects, New York (2023), Sulk, Chicago (2022, 2023), Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2022), Turley Galley, Hudson (2022), Warbling Collective, London (2020) and Brownie Project, Shanghai (2020). Goering has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Collages, Aisle, Cincinnati (2026), In Circulation: Recent Collages, Turley Gallery, Hudson (2022), Situational Awareness, Winston’s, Los Angeles (2021), Without Definition (Attempts at Clarity), Steven Amedee, New York (2019) and Charlie Goering: Recent Works, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (2018). Goering received the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant in 2017 as well as the artist in residency at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH the same year. His work has been published in Art Maze Magazine Issues 13 & 34-37, MAAKE Magazine, Issue 13, and Collé Edition Number 17, October 2023. In 2024, he published a collection of collage work with Last and Least Studios, Los Angeles, titled Collages 2020-2024. His work will be included in the upcoming New American Paintings Midwest 2026.