John Goodrich
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Solo Shows
     
1987-2014 Bowery Gallery, NYC (8 shows)  
1993,95 Piermont Flywheel Gallery, Piermont, NY  
1992 Feves Memorial Gallery, Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR  
1991 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA  
     
Selected Group Shows
     
2013-14 Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL: Zeuxis: Still Blue,
               traveling to Anderson University, Anderson IN, First Street Gallery,
               New York NY, and Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis MD
 
2012-13 Lindenwood University, St. Charles MO: Zeuxis: Reflections, traveling to Southeast
               Missouri State University, Girardeau MO, Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA,
               The Painting Center, New York NY, and Pennsylvania College of Art
               and Design, Lancaster PA
 
2010-11 The Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL: East Meets Midwest, travels to Hoffman-LaChance
               Contemporary, St. Louis, MO and Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
 
2010 Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster PA: Zeuxis: The Common Object, travels to Peninsula
               Fine Art Center, Newport News, VA, and The Painting Center, NYC
 
2009-10 Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford PA: Transformation: Drawing
               into Painting,
travels to Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC
 
2009 The Painting Center, NYC: Water  
2009 Broome Street Gallery, NYC: Zeuxis: In/Out  
2008 Lori Bookstein Fine Art: Painting in the Park  
2008 Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ: Paintings and Collages
               (two-person show with Ken Kewley)
 
2008 Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, NYC: 10+2/2  
2008 Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE and SUNY Kingsborough, NY:
               Outside the
Box: Zeuxis Paints the Landscape
 
2008 First Street Gallery, NYC: Zeuxis: Small Takes  
2007 Lori Bookstein Fine Art: On Board: An Exhibition with Zeuxis and Guests  
2007 Westbeth Gallery: Figure Painting (Curated by Simon Carr, Anthony Martino & Thaddeus                Radell)  
2007 The Painting Center, NYC: Fluid Fields (Curated by Susan Shatter)  
2006 Westbeth Gallery, NYC: Summer Light III  
2006 Lori Bookstein Fine Art: Watercurrents 2006: The Figure  
2006 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT:
               Lauren Bakoian, Glen Cebulash and John Goodrich (3 person exhibition)
 
2005 Kouros Gallery, NYC: Watercurrents 2005  
2004-05 Colby College Museum, ME; Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC; University of New Hampshire;
               Haverford College, PA; Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi MS: Zeuxis:Tabletop Arenas
 
2004 Neptune Fine Art: Spring Painting Invitational  
2004 Kouros Gallery, NYC: Watercurrents  
2003 Westbeth Gallery, NYC: Zeuxis: A Moveable Feast  
2003 Kouros Gallery, NYC: Watercolor  
2003 Salena Gallery, Long Island Univesity, Brooklyn NY: Zeuxis at LIU  
2002-03 Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC; Hermitage Foundation Museum, Norfolk VA; Attleboro Art
               Center, MA; Washington Art Association, CT: Zeuxis: Uncommon Perspectives
 
2002 Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC: Invitational Exhibition  
2002 Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary: Plein-Aire revisited  
2002 MCS Gallery, Easton, PA: MCS Presents Bowery Gallery Artists  
2002 Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC: Prospects: 5 Painters and the Landscape  
2002 New England College Art Gallery, Henniker NH: Zeuxis  
2001-02 Wright State University, OH; Kouros Gallery, NYC; Augustana College, IL; Purdue
               University, IN Zeuxis: Serial Thinking
 
2001 Rittenhouse Fine Art Gallery, Philadelphia PA: Zeuxis  
2001 Marymount College, Tarrytown NY: faculty group exhibition  
2001-present National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts: faculty group exhibitions  
2001 The Painting Center, NYC: The Power of the Seen (curated by Paula Heisen)  
2001 The Art Showcase of the Bond Market Association, NYC: The Search for Innocence  
2000 The Painting Center, NYC: Zeuxis: The Human Presence  
1999 Marywood University, Scranton. PA: Zeuxis at Marywood  
1999 Prince Street Gallery, NYC: Zeuxis: Distilled Life  
1999 Art Gallery of the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI: Zeuxis: The Human Presence  
1999 Butler Gallery at Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY: Zeuxis  
1998 Kerygma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ: Zeuixis: One Thing on Top of Another  
1998 George Sherman Union Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA: Zeuxis  
1997 First Street Gallery, NYC: National Competition Juried by Eric Brown  
1996 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY: On the Waterfront  
1994 Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ: The Regional Landscape  
1994 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT: Urban Landscape  
1992 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC: Landscape Show  
1992 Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC: Inaugural Show  
1990 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA: 121 Wooster  
1990 AMMO Artist’s Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY  
1988 80 Washington Square East Galleries, NYC:  NYU Small Works juried exhibition  
1988 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: Drawing Invitational  
1978,82 University of California at Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies
               Gallery: faculty exhibitions
 
     
Published Writings
     
2009-present Reviews of art exhibitions for City Arts  
2003-present Reviews of art exhibitions for artcritical.com, the online magazine of art and ideas  
2014 A Painter’s Sensuous Discipline, review for hyperallergic.com  
2013 The Forgotten Story of Postwar Art, review for hyperallergic.com  
2013 Catalog essay for Sally Jacobs exhibition at Prince Street Gallery, New York NY  
2013 Catalog essay for From Observation at Lancaster Galleries, Lancaster PA  
2012 Catalog essay for Steve Wheeler exhibition at David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York NY  
2011 Catalog essay for Charles Cajori exhibition at David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York NY  
2011 Catalog essay for Lynda Caspe exhibition at Sovereign/Santander Bank, New York NY  
2011 Catalog essay for Marianne Weil exhibition at Kouros Gallery, New York NY  
2011 Permissions and Possibilities, catalog essay for William D. Barnes exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum,
              College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA
 
2011 Leland Bell, catalogue essay for Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York NY  
2011 Observation and Invention, catalogue essay for Jan Knipe exhibition, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum,
              Hollins University, Roanoke VA
 
2011 Mere Pattern, catalogue essay for Ying Li exhibition, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York NY  
2010 Jon Schueler: The Castelli Years: exhibition catalogue essay for David Findlay Jr Fine Art, New York NY  
2010 Lois Dodd, essay for Alexandre Gallery, New York NY  
2009 Five Journeys, catalog essay for “Take Five: Claire’s Choice,” Westbeth Gallery, NYC  
2005-2008 Reviews of art exhibitions for The New York Sun  
2008 Elizabeth O’Reilly: Paintings and Collages: Essay for An Sionnach, Spring 2008  
2007 Temma Bell: A Language of Painting: exhibition catalogue essay for the Hafnarfjordur
             Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
 
2007 Stephen Pace: exhibition catalogue essay for Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery  
2007 Ralston Crawford: A Bountiful Restraint: exhibition catalogue essay for Salander-O’Reilly
            Galleries, NYC
 
2006 Ying Li, exhibition catalogue essay for The Painting Center, NYC  
2006 Lloyd Martin: Method and Happenstance, catalogue essay for Stephen Haller Gallery, NYC  
2005 Signs of the Flesh, catalogue essay for Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn  
2003 Jolie Stahl, exhibition catalogue essay for Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC  
2002 Su-Li Hung, exhibition catalogue essay for June Kelly Gallery, NYC  
2002 Embodying Light, exhibition catalogue essay for Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC  
2002 Albert Kresch, exhibition catalogue essay for Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, NYC  
2002 Working the Grid, catalogue essay for Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA  
1996-2001 Review Magazine: contributing writer: approximately 75 reviews and feature articles  
2000 Vessels of Color, catalogue essay for Paul Resika exhibition, Metta Galeria, Madrid  
2000 Nell Blaine, retrospective exhibition catalogue essay for Cape Ann Historical Museum,
             Gloucester, MA and Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA
 
2000 Art Dies Again, interview with art dealer Richard Feigen, WestchesterCounty Times, NY  
1999 Mirrors, catalogue essay for Steven Harvey exhibition, Schlesinger Gallery, NYC  
1998 Vicente and Resika, catalogue essay for Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY  
     
Bibliography
     
2009 “Six demonstrate how drawing, painting relate a thought-provoking Haverford College show,”
               Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer 4/24/2009
 
2007 “Art in Brief,” Maureen Mullarkey, New York Sun, 7/19/07  
2007 “Art in Brief,” Lance Esplund, New York Sun, 2/22/07  
2003 “Gallery Going,” David Cohen, New York Sun, 8/14/03  
2003 “Summer Visits,” Maureen Mullarkey, August 2003  
2001 “21 Reasons to View Still Lifes,” Mario Naves, The New York Observer 9/13/2001  
2000 “Still Lifes Stumble on Sameness in Zeuxis Show,”  New Haven Register 4/16/00  
1994 “Urban Landscapes Opening at WAA,” Voices (Southbury, CT) 3/2/94  
1992 “He Seeks to Paint Landscapes at a Deeper Level,”  The Villager (NYC) 12/23/92  
1992 “NY Artist’s Work Goes on Display Here,” East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 11/12/92  
1990 “A Sprinkling of Exhibitions Near Factories & the Water,”  Roberta Smith,
              The New York Times 3/23/90
 
     
Education
     
1979 BFA in Painting, University of California at Santa Barbara  
Summer 1976 New York Studio School, Paris Session  
1974-75 New York Studio School  
1975-76 Kansas City Art Institute  
Summer 1974 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  
     
Teaching
     
2001-present Instructor in Painting and Watercolor, National Academy of Design, School of Fine Art  
2009-present Instructor in Drawing and Painting, Haverford College, Haverford, PA  
Summer 2007 Watercolor Instructor, Long Island University, Brooklyn NY  
2001-06 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marymount College of Fordham University, Tarrytown NY  
2001-05 Painting Instructor, Educational Alliance, NYC  
1998-06 Visiting Artist Critiques, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (4 critiques)  
2001 Visiting Artist Critique and Lecture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts  
1995-99 Art Instructor, Greenwich House, NYC  
1993-97 Painting Instructor, Queens College Continuing Education Program, Queens  
1978-83 Visiting Lecturer, University of California at Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies
(six semester-length courses)
 
     
Panels
     
2014
First Street Gallery, New York NY; Imogen Smith, moderator
 
2013
The Painting Center, New York NY: Does Subject Matter Matter?
 
2011
Maryland Institute College of Art: What We Think We Mean When We Talk About Painting
 
2011 Lori Bookstein Gallery, New York NY: Leland Bell  
2010 Westbeth Gallery, New York NY: The Role of Empathy in Painting  
2010 Lines of Influence, Prince Street Gallery, NYC  
2010 Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Imogen Smith, moderator  
2009 Moderator for “Easels,” Franklin 54 Gallery, NYC  
2009 Art Students League, NYC: Closed and Open Form: Clarity/Ambiguity; Wendy Gittler, moderator  
2009 Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Jeffrey Carr, moderator  
2007 Westbeth Gallery, 2007  
2006 Review Panel, National Academy Museum, NYC  
     
Awards
     
1983 Honorarium for Painting Instruction, University of California at Santa Barbara  
1974 Most Improved Painter, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  
     
Collections
 
The Bond Market Association, NYC
Exxon Corporation
Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, NYC
John Phillips, U.S. Ambassador to Italy
Other numerous private collections