NYAB Event - Guy Goodwin "Recent Works"

Guy Goodwin "Recent Works"

Brennan & Griffin

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Guy Goodwin began painting in New York in 1965. He was involved with a group of courageous, experimental downtown New York painters, who defiantly pushed and extended the boundaries of painting which was declared dead at the time. Goodwin and many of his colleagues were celebrated in the Katy Siegel curated exhibition: High Times, Hard Times: Painting in New York from 1967 - 1975. This exhibition highlighted artists who were examining painting in optimistic and radical terms, creating process based works that aimed to broaden and expand the philosophical and material limitations of the day.

Goodwin's recent work demonstrates his continued interest in the possibilities of painting in terms of an object-like, material experience and as a socio-political endeavor. Maintaining the inherent connection to everyday life experiences, Goodwin transforms the workaday material, cardboard, with a dense layering of overlapping painted shapes. Inverting the idea of a canvas by painting on the inside of a cardboard box, Goodwin's colors and shapes build and interact within the box form. Goodwin uses many colors associative of the revolutionary atmosphere in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. For example, in Tania's Day, the orange and black palette is reminiscent of the Symbionese Liberation Army symbol. The textural quaility of worn upholstery enfolds the viewer and recalls the interior spaces of factories and diners - physical environments where social networking would occur and communal and political ideals were shared and born.

This will be Goodwin's first exhibition at Brennan & Griffin.