Sidney Goodman
One of the great pleasures in the arresting art of Sidney Goodman is the profound sense of emotional gravitas that is present. While art is not always an emotional enterprise, it is absolutely consumed with life and death matters for Goodman, as if he, upon a time, dedicated himself to the dangerous mantra of Eros-Thanatos, such as was represented in the famous Durer etching of the skeleton embracing the nude woman. This dramatic conjunction imbues Goodman’s art with an enthralling sense of immediacy and import.