Janis Goodman was born in New York City. She is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art at George Washington University and has maintained a studio in Mt. Rainier, Maryland for 25 years. She was the first artist to find Artists by the Tracks along with Tom Ashcraft. Formally, the work is a conversation around gesture, color and the symbolic nature of visual language. Her large-scale paintings and drawings move between the narrative and the deconstructed, exploring issues of the changing environment, natural phenomenon and concerns facing the natural world.