Joe Goode
Cropped image of Joe Goede, 'Self-portrait', 1965, lithograph, screenprint
Joe Goode grew up next door to Ed Ruscha in the suburbs of Oklahoma City. Goode was determined to escape his hometown and pursue a career in art, and so in 1959, encouraged by Ruscha, he took his first ever plane flight and arrived in Los Angeles with $65 to his name.
In Los Angeles, Goode entered a rapidly developing contemporary art scene. He quickly became a key figure among a group of young artists—including Ken Price, Ed Kienholz and Ronald Davis among others—who were at the forefront of American Pop. To these artists, who embraced California’s burgeoning consumer culture as a subject for their work, the reproductive possibilities offered by the graphic image were appealing and many worked at the newly established Gemini Ltd.
In 1965, three years after his painting appeared in the seminal 1962 exhibition New painting of common objects at the Pasadena Art Museum, Goode worked at Gemini Ltd to create two prints entitled Cloud and Self-portrait. In 1967 Goode returned to Gemini (by now Gemini GEL) and made the English still-life series, in which a glass and a spoon—two banal everyday items—progressively shift around the composition. Two layers of varnish, one silver and one transparent, were screenprinted onto the prints, lending their surface a gentle lustre.
Emilie Owens
Works in the Kenneth E. Tyler Collection
Chronology
1937 Born Jose Bueno in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America
1959-61 Attends Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California under Bob Irwin, Bill Moore and Emerson Woelffer
1962 First solo exhibition, Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles; included in exhibition, New paintings of common objects, organized by Walter Hopps at Pasadena Art Museum, California
1966 Solo exhibition, the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1967 Completes English Still Life Series at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles comprising editions of Glass at top—spoon on bottom, Glass lower right—spoon upper left, Glass middle left—spoon middle right, Glass and spoon lower left, Glass and spoon left middle, Spoon upper middle—glass middle right Included in Carnegie international, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Annual exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1968 Included in exhibition, Joe Goode and Ed Ruscha, Balboa Pavillion Gallery, California
1970 Included in exhibitions, 9 Portfolios, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Pop Art redefined, Hayward Gallery, London, England
1971 Solo exhibitions, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; West wall reliefs, Pomona College Art Gallery, California; included in exhibitions: Biennial exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Oversize prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1972 Solo exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; included in exhibition, Contemporary American Art, Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
1974 Included in exhibition, 8 from California, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1975 Included in exhibition, A drawing show, Newport Harbor Museum, California
1976 Solo exhibition, Recent Work, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri; included in exhibition, California painting and sculpture: the modern era, San Francisco Museum of Art, California
1978 Included in exhibition, American painting of the 1970’s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1985 Included in exhibition, Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1989 Included in exhibition, Suburban Home Life: Tracing the American Dream, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1992 Solo exhibition, Laboratory: Joe Goode Tornado Triptych, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1997 Solo exhibition, Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, CaliforniaJoe Goode currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Kate Buckingham, 2007
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.
Further Reading
EXHIBITIONS
NATIONAL GALLERY PUBLICATIONS
- California Cool, exhibition catalogue, 2018
- Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, Jane Kinsman (ed.), 2015
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