Post War and Contemporary Art

Provenance:

The Studio of Joe Goode, Los Angeles

Exhibited:

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The Oklahoma Art Center, Joe Goode/Jerry McMillan/Edward Ruscha, July 14-September 3, 1989; Orlando, Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, September 24-December 3, 1989

Literature:

Hopkins, Henry T. & Sue, Scott, Joe Goode/Jerry McMillan/Edward Ruscha, The Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, p. 32 (illustrated)

Lot Essay:

Oklahoma born Joe Goode followed childhood friend and fellow artist Ed Ruscha to California, where he first received international acclaim in 1962 with his inclusion in Walter Hopps’ historic survey of Pop Art, New Painting of Common Objects at the Pasadena Art Museum and an Artforum cover selection of a representative Milk Bottle painting. Goode is frequently associated with the West Coast Light and Space Movement for his shared concerns with perception and environment, though something of an artistic shapeshifter, with his explorative versatility and straddling of abstract and representational approaches, the work itself often runs contrary to continued critical classification. Vision and sight lines, in and out of and more specifically important through the presupposed picture plane is a principle interest and conceptual constant in all of Goode’s work. Through each successive series, Goode visually contradicts expectations of transparency and opacity, from the obscured and subsumed milk bottles, to the shredded surfaces of his torn clouds, to the buckshot perforation arrangements of environmental impact, sublimely surprising and shocking the presumed eye experience.