Rima Goodman

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Contemporary paintings in oil and mixed media, with a wide variety of subject matter and a great range of paint handling, which seek to explore the mystery of color and meaning in an expressionistic, narrative and often ironic style. Work is marked by an aliveness invigorated by inquisitiveness and continued, constant exploration. It is a history of painted surfaces and a shifting vocabulary of surface tensions. Paintings are encoded with double meanings and devoted to extensive nuances, often revealing a bluntness which can be primitive. What matters is not only how things look, but how they feel.

Exhibitions in New York, N.Y.; Florence, Italy; Los Angeles, Newport Harbor and Santa Barbara, CA ,