Brett Goodroad bell, 2023
Oil on silk over canvas
38 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (96.5 x 76.8 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Brett Goodroad (b. 1979) works outside, en plein air, and his paintings capture a sense of openness and isolation. Hilton Als, writing for the New Yorker in 2021 on Goodroad’s particular blend of figuration and abstraction, observes how the artist’s paintings seem to “want to devour the very subjects that inspired them.” Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2022 curated by Hilton Als); Cushion Works, San Francisco (2024, 2021, 2017); ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2022). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Karma, New York (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2019, 2018). His work is in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.