Robert Goodman & Hiro Sakaguchi > Robert Goodman - "Night Vision" (8)

An abstract painter of commanding vision and formidable compositional abilities, Goodman’s intense canvases are full of unexpected dynamics, jagged forms, hard calculated rhythms, and surprising, spontaneous bursts of color. Informed by the art historical discourses of abstraction, impressionism and surrealism, these works explore the sometimes violent, always intense processes of rupture and transition. When one spatial order is replaced by another, what is created? What is destroyed? How much of the doomed order will remain? How do you navigate the newly unfamiliar, and negotiate the conflicting senses of apprehension and optimism inherent in a fresh terrain?