Guy Goodwin “Works On Paper”
Brennan & Griffin
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Brennan & Griffin presents Guy Goodwin: Works on Paper. This exhibition has been designed as a companion to Goodwin’s exhibition of new paintings that were previously on view at the gallery.
Throughout his career, Goodwin has explored the material, structural, and formal limitations of painting, resulting in several distinctive, but related bodies of work. Each major body of paintings is preceded by a series of works on paper where the forms, palettes, materials, and architecture of the paintings are designed and loosely assembled. The works being exhibited are culled from three bodies of work: I Tread The Dark (1977 -1979), Food Paintings (2005 - 2008), and his most recent Cardboard Paintings (2010 - present).
In the earliest works on view, made over the course of two years in the late 1970s, Goodwin has drawn overlapping, curving forms in black oil-stick. Here, the artist’s daily drawing practice illustrates his interest in building a density of simple shapes that hover somewhere between abstraction and text. These drawings became the blueprints for the richly pigmented wooden shapes that Goodwin amassed into the heaving, improvised structures that characterized his late-70s era paintings.
Several “list” drawings and monochromatic collages from 2005-06 further illustrate Goodwin’s engagement with the abstraction of letter forms. Here, the germination of his ideas and the idiosyncrasies of the artist’s thought process are evinced in preliminary lists of the lettering of basic food items. By abstracting these letter forms through the overlapping of collaged and drawn shapes, Goodwin creates rudimentary mock-ups for his more polished laminated paper on plexiglass “Food Paintings.”
Goodwin’s most recent works have extended his interest in painting in relief and the use of unconventional materials in his vibrantly colored paintings on cardboard. The focus on material transformation is advanced through the patchwork of heavily worked cardboard forms adhered to a messy, yet defined workspace. The decision making process involved in constructing his large-scale paintings is revealed through the rearrangement of pre-determined shapes and subtle shifts in color palette from one to the next.
This is Guy Goodwin’s Third Solo Exhibition with Brennan & Griffin. Past Solo Exhibitions include Guy Goodwin: Paintings 1974, 2008, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Jeanie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY, Thorden/Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden, Segal/Steinberg Gallery, Montreal, Canada, Heland/Wetterling Gallery, Goteberg, Sweden. Group Exhibitions include: High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 - 1975, curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed advising, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (Aug - Oct 2006), National Academy Museum, New York, NY (Feb - Apr 2007), American University Museum, Washington, DC (Nov 2006 - Jan 2007), Bykert Gallery, New York, NY, and Drawing with Respect to Painting: Guy Goodwin, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray, The New York Studio School, New York, NY. Public Collections include: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA and The Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA.
[Image: Guy Goodwin, Study for Hotel/Motel IN, 2014, Acrylic, tempera, pencil and carboard on paper, 22 x 30 inches]
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Schedule
from June 08, 2014 to July 13, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-06-08 from 18:00 to 20:00