Joe Goode was an American visual artist, known for his pop art paintings.
24 Facts About Joe Goode
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Joe Goode was born on March 23,1937, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, immediately following the Dust Bowl period and at the tail end of The Great Depression.
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Joe Goode's family was Roman Catholic, and his parents divorced when Joe was 11 years old.
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Joe Goode's father had a great influence on his artistry.
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Joe Goode too was an artist who made signage for a department store in town and painted portraits.
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Joe Goode explained that the perceived leisure quickly turned into child labor as the Joe Goode boys were put to work picking potatoes on Sproull's Ranch.
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Joe Goode had little ambition and little cultural exposure as a child, but upon leaving high school he moved to Los Angeles where his old friend Ed Ruscha was going to art school.
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Joe Goode married fellow student Judy Winans in 1960, together they had a daughter and divorced two years later.
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On March 22,2025, Joe Goode died one day before his 88th birthday.
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In December 1959, Joe Goode traveled to Los Angeles, California, and began to make his name in the Los Angeles art scene.
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Joe Goode became part of a group of young artists living and working in California; this group included notable artists, such as Ken Price, Ed Kienholz, and Ronald Davis.
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In 1962, Joe Goode was exhibited alongside artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Edward Ruscha at The Pasadena Art Museum in Pasadena, California.
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Joe Goode had been exhibiting his work in group and solo exhibitions since 1960.
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From 2015 to 2021, Joe Goode exhibited in four solo shows, two of which were held at the Peter Blake Gallery.
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In 2022, Joe Goode's work was a part of the exhibition, "Dissolve," at the Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art at the University of California, Irvine.
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Additionally, a 1962 screwdriver lithograph of Joe Goode's has direct parallels to the work of Jasper Johns, another one of Joe Goode's influences.
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Joe Goode explained that, he sought to "activate" the space beyond the canvas and rather than creating some kind of three dimensional object to represent the milk bottle it made the most sense to simply use the actual object.
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Joe Goode spoke about a specific painting in this series called Leroy which measured roughly ten feet with three milk bottles represented.
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Joe Goode created his Staircases series starting in 1964 and was inspired by the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp and the staircases in the musicals of Busby Berkley.
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Joe Goode's Staircases vary in size, with one of the largest being around nine-feet high.
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Neuendorf himself was a big supporter of Joe Goode and put up several shows in Germany exhibiting his work.
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From 1967 to 1969 Joe Goode produced his Photo Clouds series, while Torn Clouds was produced from years 1970 to 1976, and Vandalized Clouds was simultaneously painted from 1971 to 1975.
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Once again evoking childhood and suburban life, Joe Goode's Clouds are reminiscent of the clouds seen when laying in a field, further eliciting an emotional reaction from the viewer.
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Joe Goode saw his Clouds series featured prominently by Hans Neuendorf in his galleries in Hamburg and Cologne, Germany.