The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0071 Goode, Joe, Untitled in three parts, 44/75, multi-colored lithograph (eleven runs and one silk screen run), 23” x 125¼,” 1972 illus: pp 88-89

Joe Goode (1937- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Goode’s three-part lithograph is a classic example of the ironic space fantasies for which he is famous: it is as if he removed spatial relationships from their familiar connection to perception and set them down again in a universe of his own design. Yes, he seems to be saying (center panel) it is all there, but hidden; and (panels one and three) hidden by the very thing you are meant to see.

Joe Goode attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1961. He was born in 1937 in Oklahoma, but since the mid-sixties has been one of the leading exponents of southern California contemporary art, with shows at most of the major museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. An exhibition organized in 1972 by Henry Hopkins of the Fort Worth Art Center Museum, a one-man show, traveled to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 1973. His work has also been exhibited at the Whitney Museum; the Carnegie Institute; the Oakland Art Museum; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles; the Portland Art Museum; Felicity Samuel Gallery, London; and the Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.