RECENT PRESS
2024
Brenda Goodman Paints the Pain of Being Human, John Yau, HYPERALLERGIC, November 2024
Brenda Goodman’s Unknowable Language of Grief, John Yau, HYPERALLERGIC, August 2024
2023
A cup of coffee with New York-based artist Brenda Goodman, Nina Mdivani, XIBIT, March 2023
Brenda Goodman, Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, March 2023
Brenda Goodman: Hop Skip Jump, Andrew L. Shea, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2023
Brenda Goodman: Scars and All, John Yau, Hyperallergic, February 2023
See: Brenda Goodman, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, February 2023
Brenda Goodman TALK on her work at RISD
PRESS
Brenda Goodman review in Artforum. Read full review here.
Brenda Goodman in The New York Times
2022
The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2022, Hyperallergic, December 2022
Brenda Goodman: Review, Margaret Ewing, Artforum, April 2022
Art We Saw this Winter: ‘Feminism and the Legacy of Surrealism’, Will Heinrich, The New York Times, January 2022
Brenda Goodman’s Fearless Self Portraits, John Yau, Hyperallergic, February 2022
2021
Brenda Goodman’s Abstraction and Pain, John Yau, Hyperallergic, August 2021
2020
Review: Call it Cave Painting Modern. How Brenda Goodman taps into a primal beauty, David Pagel, LA Times, February 2020
Brenda Goodman & John Yau from Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Exhibition walkthrough of Brenda Goodman's solo show "In A Lighter Place" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Jan. 24 - Feb. 23, 2019
2019
Where Brenda Goodman's Paintings Are Taking Us, John Yau, Hyperallergic, December 2019
Beer with A Painter, Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic, November 2019
Brenda Goodman Elected National Academician at National Academy of Design, November 9, 2019
The Review Panel, Nancy Princenthal, Lee Ann Norman, and Jonathan Santloffer, and David Cohen, February 13, 2019
Brenda Goodman Moves into New Territory, John Yau, Hyperallergic, February 10, 2019
Brenda Goodman, Heike Moras Art, February 6, 2019
NYC’s Stellar Season of Female Painters Only Underlines the Art Market’s Misogyny, Observer, Paddy Johnson, January 30, 2019
Opening Night Photos for "Brenda Goodman: In a Lighter Place" at Sikkema Jenkins, January 28, 2019
"Brenda Goodman: In A Lighter Place" Exhibition Catalogue
Brenda Goodman on Her Work in Stages, Painters on Paintings, January 23, 2019
Editors’ Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week, January 21, 2019
2018
7 Museum and Gallery Exhibitions We're Excited About in 2019, All Arts, December 2018
How to Feel Human: The Paintings of Brenda Goodman, Upstate Diary, October 2018
3: Brenda Goodman, Christina Tenaglia, and Marie Vickerilla, Jonathan Goodman, The Brooklyn Rail, July 11
Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies: This Black Cloud Called Trump, Brenda Goodman, Hyperallergic, June 2
2017
Brenda Goodman Cuts Deep, John Yau, Hyperallergic, September 30
Discussion: Brenda Goodman and Alexi Worth, Artcritical Lectures/Events featured listing, September 30
After 25-year rift, sibling artists Brenda and Steven Goodman bury some big hatchets, Suzy Farbman, Read the Spirit, September 24
"In A New Space," Brenda Goodman Turns Towards the Light, Deborah Krieger, Whitehot Magazine, September 2017
Magic Praxis Podcast/Brenda Goodman interview with Clarity Haynes and Kate Hawes
Posit Journal Issue 14, online publication of visual art and poetry
Aporia, curated by Mary DeVincentis Herzog
Chimento Contemporary: Straight Outta Bushwick, Genie Davis, Art and Cake, February 1
2016
2016's Best Artist Interviews, Andrea Alessi, ArtSlant, December 14
Our favorite interviews from 2016
The Body Politic, in the Flesh, Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic, November 26
Scar Tissue, John Yau, Hyperallergic, November 13
2016's Best Artist Interviews, Andrea Alessi, ArtSlant, December 14
Symposium with Brenda Goodman and John Yau
on the occasion of Brenda Goodman's solo show "New Work" at Life On Mars Gallery, March 20 - April 19, 2015
2015
Cass Corridor Artist Gains Recognition at Age 72 for Her Dark Paintings, Kyle Norris, December 19 (4 minute live talk)
In Five Decades of Self-Portraits, an Artist Refuses to Tone Down Her Feelings, Sarah Rose Sharp, December 11
One of Detroit's core 'Cass Corridor' Artists Returns for Two Homecoming Shows, Lee DeVito, November 11
A Charming Reverence for Color: Artists Revisit Paul Klee, Rob Colvin, October 28
This is What Tomorrow Looks Like: On Painting, Bradley Rubinstein, September 3
The Other Side of Portraiture, Review, Thomas Micchelli, July 11
Brenda Goodman: New Work, Review, Jonathan Goodman, May 13
Backstory: Brenda Goodman, Richard Benari and Lauren Henkin, May 12
Brenda Goodman’s Recent Paintings, Review, John Yau, April 12
A Conversation With Brenda Goodman, Ashley Garrett, April 13
Brenda Goodman at Life On Mars, Zachary Keeting and Chris Joy, April
Artist’s Talk at LOM: Brenda Goodman and John Yau, Paul Behnke, April 17
Brenda Goodman @ Life on Mars, Paul Behnke, April 7
2014
Brenda Goodman on the Guston Curse, Brenda Goodman, November 2
Brenda Goodman: Interview, Brett Baker, July 21
Brenda Goodman @ John Davis Gallery, Paul Behnke, August 4
2013
10 Memorable Paintings from 2013, The Huffington Post, John Seed, Dec 12
2012
Brenda Goodman: Paint into Emotion, John Seed, Huffington Post, July 17, 2012
2010
John Yau, Review, "Brenda Goodman, Work 1990-2010 September, 2010"
Eric Gelber, Review, "Death, Loss, Pain and Longing: Core themes abound in the profound work of Brenda Goodman" August 2, 2010
David Brody Interview: "Brenda Goodman: Self-Portraits 2003-2007" is available in the May archive on ARTCRITICAL.COM