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An example of work by John L. Goodyear
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from the artist:
John Goodyear was born in Los Angeles, California in 1930. His earliest
memory is of the 1933 earthquake which devastated southern California. In
1941 after the death of his father, the family moved to Grosse Ile, Michigan,
the home of his maternal grandparents. He graduated as valedictorian of his
high school class and won a scholarship to study art at the University of
Michigan. At school he met and married Anne Dixon in 1953. A year later he
graduated with a Master of Design degree and was drafted into the U.S. Army.
Service in Japan was to have an important impact on his work. Influences
from Japanese architecture and Zen Buddhism led to the sparse ephemerality that characterizes most of his work thereafter.
The same influences led to a switch from painting to sculptural work and
ultimately toward site specific and public sculpture. After teaching at the
University of Michigan in Grand Rapids, a grant from the Graham Foundation
took him to the University of Massachusetts where he prepared work for his
first solo shows at the Amel Gallery in New York City. Two other shows
followed at the same gallery, as well as inclusion in over fifty group shows
nationwide.
After his first show in New York in 1964, he was invited to join the Visual
Arts faculty at Rutgers University where he taught for the next thirty-three
years. He replaced Roy Lichtenstein who had just left the faculty. During
the seventies he received a fellowship to work under Gyorgy Kepes at MIT's
Center for Advanced Visual Studies where he launched a series of around the
world exhibitions of conceptual/sculptural works related to geography of the
world globe. A stint teaching as a visiting artist followed in France, at
Cergy-Pontoise outside Paris.
During the eighties he finished six major public sculptures including one
for IBM in Triangle Park, NC and another for the State House in Trenton, NJ
finished in 1991. He is currently working on another to be finished in 2002
for the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick.
In the nineties he continued painting on canvas. But his work to this date projects the same relativistic point of view, arguing against Modernist absolutism. A show in Toronto which included his work, "Cracks in the Modern," may put him in the correct historical context. In the summer of 2000 his work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA accompanied by a 52 page catalogue, "Thinking into Form," with an article by Stephen Westfall.
His work is in the collection of the major New York City Museums; the
Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum as well as over fifty other public collections world-wide including the British Museum, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris and the Museum of
Constructive and Concrete Art, Zurich, Switzerland and the Macedonian Center for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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