Don't Go Near the Water: Paintings by Scott Goodman
Schaefer Landing, 440 - 446 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
September 26, 2011 - January 13, 2012
Opening: September 27, 7-9pm
Don't Go Near the Water: Paintings by Scott Goodman is on display in the North and South Tower lobbies of Schaefer Landing, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Don't Go Near the Water depicts worlds defined by pattern and surface value in a nearly simplistic palette. Environments are devoid of distinction between interior and exterior; flexible spaces such as hallways and windows offer little insight as to their endpoint, and sofas no immediate relief. The works extend to explain their surroundings, the conceit of luxury living, creating a horror of undefinable proximity. Thus Goodman's world emerges grim: a warning to passersby of the penalty of any purported antidote.
Scott Goodman is a painter and sculptor living in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA from Cooper Union in 2006 and is currently a member of the art collective DADDY. Goodman's work explores the synthetic relationship of nature unto the domestic, and by extension, issues of perception and reality. Poetically, his is a world of unheard trees falling.