• Overview

    Joe Goode is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Born in Oklahoma City in 1937, Goode moved to Los Angeles to attend the Chouinard Art Institute until 1961, where fellow artists Ed Ruscha and Jerry McMillan were also enrolled. Goode eventually became known for his large-scale, monochromatic milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery that played with perception and everyday objects. His work was included in the ground-breaking exhibition New Painting of Common Objects in 1962, which was the first museum exhibition of Pop Art to be held in the United States. The exhibition also included work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Ed Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud. Through the years, Joe Goode has combined various traditional and non-traditional media in the creation of his artwork. While his subject matter has remained relatively consistent over the years, he has revisited each theme using different media. Goode's work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in many major museum collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Menil Collection in Houston; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; and New York's Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art.

  • Works
    • Grey Folded Clouds - I Blue and Pink
      Joe Goode
      Grey Folded Clouds - I Blue and Pink, 1971
      Lithograph on Paper
      33 x 43.6 cms
    • Grey Folded Clouds - II Blue and White
      Joe Goode
      Grey Folded Clouds - II Blue and White , 1971
      lithograph on paper
      41 x 61 cms
    • Grey Folded Clouds - IV Grey
      Joe Goode
      Grey Folded Clouds - IV Grey, 1971
      Lithograph on paper
      50.8 x 75 cms
    • Untitled (White Paper Clouds)
      Joe Goode
      Untitled (White Paper Clouds), 1971
      Lithograph on paper
      46 x 61 cms
  • Biography

    1937
    Born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    1959-1961
    Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California


    Presently lives and works in Venice, California
     
    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
    1962
    Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1963
    Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1966
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1967
    Rowan Gallery, London, England
    1968
    Kornblee Gallery, New York, New York
    1969
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1970
    Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, West Germany
    Galerie Neuendorf, Cologne, West Germany
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1971
    La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
    Mueller Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
    Pomona College Art Gallery, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, California
    1972
    Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
    Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England
    Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
    Galerie Neuendorf, Cologne, West Germany
    Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1973
    Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Contract Graphics, Houston, Texas
    Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England
    Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
    Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, West Germany
    Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1974

    California State University Northridge
    Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
    1975
    Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg West Germany
    Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Seder-Creigh Gallery, Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, California
    1976
    James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
    1977
    Mount Saint Mary's College, Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1978
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1979
    Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1980
    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
    1981
    Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1982
    ARCO Center for Visual Art, Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, California
    Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Gallery One, Fort Worth, Texas
    1983
    Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1984
    Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
    1985
    Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, California
    1986
    James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California
    Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, California
    1988
    Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California
    1989
    Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
    James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California
    1990
    James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California
    1991
    Takada Gallery, San Francisco, California. " Joe Goode: From the Blue and Black Series"
    1992
    James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California
    Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France
    The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
    Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
    1993
    Soma Gallery, San Diego, California
    Takada Gallery, San Francisco, California
    1994
    Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Venice, California
    L.A. Louver, Venice, California
    Shasta College, Redding, California, "Tornadoes"
    1995
    Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Space Sawada, Tokyo, Japan
    1996
    L.A. Louver, Venice, California
    OCHI Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho
    1997
    Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
    Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, California
    Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
    Brandstetter and Weiss, Zurich, Switzerland
    1998
    Takada Gallery, San Francisco, California
    L.A. Louver, Venice, California
    Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    1999
    Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, California
    2001
    Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, California
    2002
    Cloud Paintings from 1965 to Present Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California, February 6- March 16
    Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, October 24- November 30
    LA Louver, Venice, California
    Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, California
    Plain Air, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California, February 9-March 30
    2003
    New Paintings, Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, California, June 28- August 30
    2004
    Surface Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, April 24 May 29
    2005
    X-RAY DRAWINGS, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January 8 February 19
    BURN OUT!, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, August 30 October 1
    2007
    New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, June 1 July 7
    2008
    DONTNO, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England February March 1
    Ashes, DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 5 May 24.
    Seiler & Mosseri-Marlio Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Fall 2008.
    2009
    Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
    Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
    2010
    The Menil Collections, Houston, Texas
    2011
    De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
    2012
    Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
    2014
    Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
    2015
    Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
    Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street, New York
    2016
    Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
    Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
    2017
    Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    2018
    Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California
    2019
    Pan American Art Projects, Miami, Florida
    Forum Für Fotografie, Cologne, Germany

    AWARDS AND GRANTS
    American Foundation of Artists
    Cassandra Foundation
    Copley Foundation
    Maestro Grant, California Art Council
    National Endowment for the Arts
    National Endowment for the Arts

    SELECTED COLLECTIONS
    American Federation of Arts, New York, New York
    The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    Donald Bren Foundation, Los Angeles, California
    Executive Life Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California
    Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
    Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
    The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
    Museum of Modern Art, Jerusalem, Israel
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
    The National Gallery, London, England
    The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
    The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
    Oklahoma Arts Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    Oklahoma State Art Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    Orange County Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
    Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
    Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, California
    San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
    The St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
    Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
    Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, California
    Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

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