Recent Paintings: Descending Light

January 28 – February 22, 2020

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 30, 5‐8pm

Gallery Talk: Eyes and Minds: Structuring the World,
Saturday, February 8, 3pm

John Goodrich’s most recent paintings include some forty landscapes and still lifes animated by heightened colors and rapid brushwork. The artist explains the show’s title:

For each motif I sought an embracing pictorial rhythm. All needed to be energized: a rock’s huddling permitted a tree to stretch; clouds pressing the horizon released the flow of plains below. Sunlight became both illuminating entrypoint and (with luck) the cohering outcome. As I worked I often recalled my advice to students: express in color the “descending light.”

The exhibition also includes several large interpretations of landscape drawings by Claude Lorrain. Transformed in color and scale, they suggest that the natural dramas that inspired Claude, Corot and Ruisdael remain just as available today, as much in paint as in life.

Goodrich’s paintings have appeared in group shows at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Elizabeth Harris Gallery and Kouros Gallery in New York City. His work has been reviewed 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.

A preview of works in the exhibition can be seen at www.johngoodrich.net