Brenda Goodman Exhibition
Life on Mars Gallery
[Image: Brenda Goodman with "Stone Memories" (2014) oil on wood 72 x 80 in.]
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Life On Mars Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Brenda Goodman’s new paintings and works on paper. A full color catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an essay by artist/critic David Brody. The exhibition at Life on Mars Gallery will run concurrently with her inclusion in the Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, opening March 12.
A painter’s painter, Goodman takes the language of abstraction and bends it towards her will, creating a world of deep personal meaning. She creates imagery achingly intimate and powerful. Through her masterful use of oil paint, Goodman produces rich surfaces, of bold and emotionally charged color, and displays draftsmanship honed through decades of studio practice.
Her imagery reaches back to and honors our history of painting (De Chrico and Guston come to mind), but is wholly original and contemporary, due to the fierce uncompromising personal narratives that are at the heart of her work.
In the catalogue for this show, David Brody writes this about her current work:
“Brenda Goodman has been making absolutely rock solid, furiously alive paintings since the 1960s. She has poured out her soul and spilled her guts into every single work. And though she has been known by many for years to be shimmering skilled and tough as nails, she only recently for the first time sold out an exhibition. Now, on the occasion of her solo show at Life on Mars and simultaneous inclusion in the American Academy Invitational, let this be the occasion for some serious Brenda Goodman momentum. No one around paints like her, with such unapologetically personal stakes … Goodman’s body of work stands apart, invaluable, unique, pushing above the canopy, its roots digging deep into the soil, its twisting branches drooping with amazing new fruit.”
In a long and productive career, Goodman has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. She has had 34 one-artist exhibitions at numerous galleries throughout the country, including John Davis Gallery (Hudson, NY), Rutgers University, Howard Scott Gallery and Pam Adler Gallery (New York City), Nielsen Gallery (Boston), Revolution Gallery (Ferndale, MI), Marianne-Deson Gallery and Phyllis Kind (Chicago).
Her work has been exhibited in over 170 group shows, most notably in New York City at The Whitney Biennale, The New Museum, Edward Thorp Gallery, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, and throughout the US at Nielsen Gallery (Boston), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT), and the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH).
Goodman’s paintings are found in The Agnes Gund Collection, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Birmingham Museum of Art.
In our project room we will feature paintings of artists affiliated with the Gallery whose work we love and continue to champion, Todd Bienvenu, Farrell Brickhouse, and Karen Schwartz.
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Schedule
from March 20, 2015 to April 18, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-20 from 18:00 to 21:00