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Father's Day, Coney Island, 2007 silver gelatin print

 

John Goodman : Moving Pictures
February 8 - March 11, 2008

 

For Immediate Release

 

Boston – John Goodman will exhibit his recent series MOVING PICTURES, black and white photographs of the American landscape punctuated by stops in Nashville, Coney Island and the Tulsa Rodeo, at the Howard Yezerski Gallery. The photography exhibit will run from Friday, February 8th through Tuesday, March 11th.

“I photograph what I can only momentarily sense and am more interested in how things feel than how they look . My photographic approach is active and gestural as I strive to connect to the ebb and flow of our lives. The subsequent motion in my pictures abstracts the images creating a photographic calligraphy of shape and form. The result is a synopsis of what was there, leaving the viewer's imagination to fill in the details.”
John Goodman, photographer.

“John Goodman’s photography marries the tumult of personality with symmetry of design, the visceral with the deliberate, guts with formality. By embracing these contradictions he has given us a body of work that compels us to see,” states Christopher Millis. This past year the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Boston Public Library made extensive acquisitions from John Goodman's series the Times Square Gym, Havana Cuba, Boston Ballet, Combat Zone, and Moving Pictures for their permanent collections.

“John Goodman’s camera, is not an instrument of detachment, analysis, or judgment, but an iris of an eye that is our own, dissolving ostensible barriers between object and subject,” wrote Joyce Carol Oates for Double Take magazine.

Goodman has worked with such clients as Gucci, Puma, IBM, The Gap, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. He is on the faculty of The Art Institute of Boston and teaches at the Maine Photographic Workshops. Several of Goodman’s images were featured in DEVIL WEARS PRADA as centerpieces for Meryl Streep’s office and several will be seen in the upcoming SEX IN THE CITY: The Movie.

The Howard Yezerski Gallery is located at 14 Newbury Street. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The gallery will host an Artist Reception Friday, February 8, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. John Goodman will give an artist talk open to the public February 12th at 2:00pm..

 

For further information please contact Alexis Dunfee at Howard Yezerski Gallery 617.262.0550 Tuesday - Saturday 10-5:30pm