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http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2012/08/color-field-and-form-part-10.html
Joanne Mattera reports on the painting scene in the Husdon Valley with images of recent exhibitions of work by Louise Fishman and Brenda Goodman at John Davis Gallery in Hudson and Nancy Natale at Gallery at R&F, Kingston, as well as studio visits with Hudson Valley painters Nancy Azara and Darla Bjork.
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http://anaba.blogspot.com/2012/08/brenda-goodman.html
Martin Bromirski photo blogs installation photos from the recent exhibition Brenda Goodman: Paintings at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York.
In a 2007 interview with David Brody, Goodman said about her work: "I... move back and forth between abstraction, figuration and the combination of the two a lot in my work as well as changing scale from very small to very large….power in the small painting and intimacy in the large ones. All these things are part of me now and they inform each painting I do... I try and stay with the intensity and the emotion, the feeling, without making it ironic... Every square inch has to mean something. There’s no corner of the painting that doesn’t have the same amount of conviction andintegrity as another part. Every square inch should be important and full."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/brenda-goodman-painting_b_1676521.html
John Seed interviews painter Brenda Goodman on the occasion of an exhibition of new paintings at John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York, on view from July 19 - August 12, 2012.
Seed writes: "Goodman, who has painted for over 50 years, surrenders to the act of painting itself, and lets the emotions -- however difficult they may be -- bloom directly from her unconscious. Her work is never precious, since she observes that it is often the 'precious area that's keeping the painting from being finished.' Over the years she has learned to trust that balance and resolution will indeed appear if you let them. 'Through the years I've gone from taking days or weeks to let something go... to minutes,' Goodman notes. 'To me, this is one of the most spiritual acts of painting.' "
