Joe Goode
Encyclopedia
Joe Goode was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1937. In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, CA where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute until 1961.
First recognized for his Pop Art
milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein
, Andy Warhol
, Jim Dine
, Phillip Hefferton
, Robert Dowd
, Edward Ruscha
, and Wayne Thiebaud
, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects
, curated by Walter Hopps
at the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum
). This historical exhibition was the first museum Pop Art
exhibition in the United States.
Through the years, Joe Goode has combined various traditional and non-traditional media in the creation of his artwork. He has explored images which project a way of seeing “in and out” and “up and down” as well as things that can be seen through: milk bottles, oceans, waterfalls, clouds and torn skies. While his subject matter has remained relatively consistent over the years, he has revisited each theme using different media, aiding him in finding unique ways in which he continues to work.
Over the past fifty years, Goode’s work has been shown in hundreds of gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide. His work is included in many major museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Menil Collection
, The Smithsonian Institution
, The Whitney Museum of American Art
and the Museum of Modern Art
, New York.
Joe Goode currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Azzurra, Marina Del Rey, California,
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
Henry Art Gallery Collection, Seattle, Washington
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Museum of Modern Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum of Modern Art, New York New York
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Oklahoma Arts Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Art Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Pomona College Art Museum, Claremont, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
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, DC
Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Cassandra Foundation,
Copley Foundation,
Maestro Grant, California Art Council,
National Endowment for the Arts
First recognized for his Pop Art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
milk bottle paintings and cloud imagery, Goode's work was included along with Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...
, Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
, Jim Dine
Jim Dine
Jim Dine is an American pop artist. He is sometimes considered to be a part of the Neo-Dada movement. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended Walnut Hills High School, the University of Cincinnati, and received a BFA from Ohio University in 1957. He first earned respect in the art world with...
, Phillip Hefferton
Phillip Hefferton
Phillip Hefferton is an American pop artist from Detroit, Michigan, known for his paintings of banknotes. A friend of artist Robert Dowd, he entered the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, where he studied painting with Sarkis Sarkisian. In 1958-9 he began drawing "common objects"...
, Robert Dowd
Robert Dowd
Robert Dowd was an American artist, who also painted under the name Robert O'Dowd.After his discharge from the U.S. Marines in 1957 he entered the Society of Arts and Crafts/Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan where he studied painting with Sarkis Sarkisian. In 1958-9 he began drawing...
, Edward Ruscha
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California...
, and Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter whose most famous works are of cakes, pastries, boots, toilets, toys and lipsticks. He is associated with the Pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate...
, in the 1962 ground-breaking exhibit New Painting of Common Objects
New Painting of Common Objects
The exhibition "New Painting of Common Objects" at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962 was the first museum survey of American pop art. The eight artists included were: Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Andy Warhol, Phillip Hefferton, Robert Dowd, Edward Ruscha, Joe Goode and Wayne Thiebaud...
, curated by Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps
Walter Hopps was an American museum director and curator of contemporary art. His obituary in the Washington Post described him as a "sort of a gonzo museum director -- elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules."Hopps was born in Eagle Rock, Los...
at the Pasadena Art Museum (now Norton Simon Museum
Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon Museum is an Art Museum located in Pasadena, California, United States. It was previously known by the names: the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum.-Overview:...
). This historical exhibition was the first museum Pop Art
Pop art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...
exhibition in the United States.
Through the years, Joe Goode has combined various traditional and non-traditional media in the creation of his artwork. He has explored images which project a way of seeing “in and out” and “up and down” as well as things that can be seen through: milk bottles, oceans, waterfalls, clouds and torn skies. While his subject matter has remained relatively consistent over the years, he has revisited each theme using different media, aiding him in finding unique ways in which he continues to work.
Over the past fifty years, Goode’s work has been shown in hundreds of gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide. His work is included in many major museum collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Menil Collection
Menil Collection
The Menil Collection, located in Houston refers either to a museum that houses the private art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself...
, The Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
, The Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
and the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York.
Joe Goode currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Selected Collections
American Federation of Arts, New York, New YorkAzzurra, Marina Del Rey, California,
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
Henry Art Gallery Collection, Seattle, Washington
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Museum of Modern Art, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum of Modern Art, New York New York
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Oklahoma Arts Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Art Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
Pomona College Art Museum, Claremont, California
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
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, DC
Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Awards and Grants
American Foundation of Artists,Cassandra Foundation,
Copley Foundation,
Maestro Grant, California Art Council,
National Endowment for the Arts