John Goodrich - The Color’s the Thing - Recent Paintings

John Goodrich’s twelfth exhibition at Bowery includes forty recent landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes, all animated by heightened color and incisive brushwork. The paintings reveal how colors and forms can be more than merely descriptive; they can also engage a kind of elemental expression unique to painting.

The artist writes: We recognize the objects around us by their visual aspect, leaping from primal sensations– patterns of light and dark, warm and cool–to familiar entities: car, house, tree. Rarely do we consider the vast perceptual gap in-between. Painting reawakens us to the process of seeing, providing a singular account of the world, one intensified through the directing powers of line and the pressures of color.

The artist has exhibited his work in group shows at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Elizabeth Harris Gallery and Kouros Gallery in New York City. His work has been favorably mentioned in The New York Times, The New York Sun and The New York Observer. A writer on art, he has written for numerous print and online publications.