Joe Goode (23 March 1937 - 22 March 2025)
Joe Goode emerged in the early 1960s as a member of the “Cool School,” a group of LA artists including Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses, Wallace Berman, and others centered around the legendary Ferus Gallery, though Goode never actually had a show there.
Though he exhibited extensively throughout his career and his work resides in dozens of museum collections, he never achieved the notoriety of some of his colleagues, perhaps because his work was hard to pin down, drawing associations to Pop Art, conceptual art, and the Light & Space movement.
Joe was an innately gifted painter, able to produce the most gorgeously painted works while his subject matter often remained prickly .
He questioned the authenticity of experience through his color-saturated world-view. He wanted the viewer to remember that no matter how beautiful the painting, you are looking at a man-made image.
Rest in Power !
Image: Bakersfield, 1997, Lithograph, ed. 30, 25 3/4 x 25 in.
