Carl Belz essay on artist John Goodyear, republished on the occasion of the exhibition John Goodyear, Perspectives/Six Decades, at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, on view through January 2, 2015.

Belz writes: "John Goodyear’s way not so much makes art as allows art to happen, as if art were somehow there all along, as if latent, awaiting activation. Within the rhythm of this way, art experience and lived experience intersect and are continuous with one another by virtue of constantly informing one another. Within their interaction, at the same time, they are not the same, not interchangeable, for the identity of each – its viability in doing what it does and meaning what it means – is ever grounded in an acknowledgment of the separateness of the other, a separateness in which they are finally bound. Such, for me, is the way of John Goodyear’s art."