Background
Joe Goode was born in 1937 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles
Joe Goode was born in 1937 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
During 1959 - 1961 Joe studied at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California.
First recognized for his Pop Art milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included for the first time along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. This historical exhibition was the first museum Pop Art exhibition in the United States.
Through the years, Goode has combined various traditional and non-traditional media in the creation of his artwork. He has explored images which project a way of seeing “in and out” and “up and down” as well as things that can be seen through: milk bottles, oceans, waterfalls, clouds, and torn skies. While his subject matter has remained relatively consistent over the years, he has revisited each theme using different media, aiding him in finding unique ways in which he continues to work. Most of the artist's paintings are color-field, such as "Untitled (Ocean Blue #12)", from 1988, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Other paintings superimpose mundane objects on top of the color field.
Over the past fifty years, Goode’s work has been shown in hundreds of gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide. His work is included in many major museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Menil Collection, The Smithsonian Institution, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Goode currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Milk Bottle Sculpture 15
Clouds
Untitled No. 4
Ocean Blue #6
Environmental Impact
X-Ray Drawing 14
Studies on the Past 26
Bed
Untitled (Moon Series, MNmm 11)
Tornado
Pollution R2
Untitled (Vandalism Series)
Untitled (Torn Sky)
Oak Rock
Pollution-R3
Quadratisch
Untitled (Torn Clouds)
Black Drawing 6
Untitled (Torn Clouds)
Birthdays
Untitled
Environmental Impact
Tissue Tear Series: Untitled
San Bernadino
Untitled
White House
Inspired by natural forces, Joe Goode seeks to convey the process of perception in his paintings. In his paintings, Goode walks the line between abstraction and representation. He gives hints of recognizable forms and uses subtle gradations of color and visible brushstrokes to stimulate viewers to reconsider their own perceptual experiences.
