Jennifer Gooch grew up and lived much of her life in the suburbs of Dallas.
Her superior character is the product of being raised by her single father, a young ex-GI pothead who later found answers in Southern fundamentalist Christian religion. Other fond memories include trailer parks, a severe sinus infection at the age of 4 from the sponge of a pink hair roller mysteriously lodged in her nose, stray-cats, nomadism, roly-polies, social anxiety, and ringworm.
Her career as a visual artist started early. As a child she was obsessed with legos and the Etch-a-Sketch Animator. She enjoyed sewing her own "dolls", or modifying ones given to her with well-intention. A doting aunt once gifted her with drawing lessons from a woman who specialized in paintings of pensive Native Americans that were sold at the local strip-mall gallery.
Searching for an incongruously classy pastime, she began playing violin at the age of eleven and passionately dedicated herself to it through the first two years of college. After developing severe performance anxiety in music school, she bravely quit playing altogether.
With her dreams of a music career dashed, she turned to the solace of art.
Now, having finished her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, she has returned to Denton, TX, where she is a poorly-paid model maker for an orthodontic lab and is working on an album for her alter ego as a banjo-playing singer.
