Brenda Goodman: ‘Self-Portraits’ has been selected as one of Hyperallergic’s Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022. Hrag Vartanian writes:

This exhibition by painter Brenda Goodman focused on her self-portraits and it was a must-see. In a series of paintings, she taps into the voracious hunger at the core of our beings, demonstrating an unquenchable thirst for more, beyond ourselves. Here the figures eat paint, like they are consuming the building blocks of their existence, hungry for more. The figures themselves also look scared and somewhat maladapted to their space, writhing with discomfort but also intensely powerful with their monumental torsos and their piercing gazes, even if their eyes are sometimes cloaked or obscured. It’s rare to see work with the emotional rawness and directness of art like this, and I look forward to the day this series of works is better known. As John Yau explained in his review earlier this year, “Goodman is the great psychologically driven portraitist of the past 50 years.”

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