Artist Profile

JENNIFER GOODMAN: THE LONG WAIT FOR THE ANGEL

“Jennifer Goodman’s leap into the openness and expansiveness of this new pictorial venture is indicative of a heightened level of sophistication and technical dexterity.

JENNIFER GOODMAN REFERS constantly to the principles of harmony, balance, geometry, stability, structure, symmetry and asymmetry. They are the foundation that underpins her practice.

In the past this dance with equilibrium was played out within the structure of the grid, but since her 2010 exhibition, Ocular Spectra, she has dismantled that stylish geometry and fabricated a space in which arabesques loop elegantly. Captured within the strict rectangular frame of the canvas, this exploration of pictorial space extends endlessly in a parallel universe of nonreferential, abstract meandering.

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