Joe Goode is an American artist. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1937. In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, California, 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. This historical exhibition was the first museum Pop Art exhibition in the United States. Through the years, 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. Most of the artist's paintings are colorfield, such as Untitled , from 1988, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Other paintings superimpose mundane objects on top of the color field. 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. Goode lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Selected Collections
American Federation of Arts, New York, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; De Young, San Francisco, California; Donald Bren Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan; Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Grey Art Gallery of NYU, New York, New York; Henry Art Gallery Collection, Seattle, Washington; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri; 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 Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, Jerusalem, Israel; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museums Sheffield, Sheffield, England National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australia; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Oklahoma State Art Collection, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Pomona College Art Museum, Claremont, California; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California; Smithsonian Institution / Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia; UBS Art Collections, Zurich, Switzerland; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky; University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Awards and Grants
American Foundation of Artists, Cassandra Foundation, Copley Foundation, Maestro Grant, California Art Council, National Endowment for the Arts
