Artist
Goodman’s distinctive, colourful and tightly-intertwined nail sculptures that often look like writhing snakes have begun to unravel into ribbons, scrolls or discarded bandages that have a more distinctly sardonic tone as they become text-based works that allude to digital signage with their flickering, impermanent empty messages on constant repeat. I WANT MORE reads a flag of pink, blue and silver acrylic nails; THIS IS IT/IS THIS IT? repeats in and on itself in a twisted blue and gold scroll, that reflects an emptiness felt by those who want for nothing, materially. The archetype behind this demanding uncertainty is searching for a world beyond the one they know and own.
Goodman’s distinctive, colourful and tightly-intertwined nail sculptures that often look like writhing snakes have begun to unravel into ribbons, scrolls or discarded bandages that have a more distinctly sardonic tone as they become text-based works that allude to digital signage with their flickering, impermanent empty messages on constant repeat. I WANT MORE reads a flag of pink, blue and silver acrylic nails; THIS IS IT/IS THIS IT? repeats in and on itself in a twisted blue and gold scroll, that reflects an emptiness felt by those who want for nothing, materially. The archetype behind this demanding uncertainty is searching for a world beyond the one they know and own.
Give and Take
2023, Acrylic Nails, Batting, Wire, Silcone, Fiberglass, 86 x 229 x 39cm
White Knuckling It
2023, Acrylic Nails, Batting, Silicone Glue, Fiberglass, 89 x 130 x 20cm
Live! Love! Life!
2023, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, Batting, Fiberglass, 155 x 70 x 48 cm
Burn Bright
2024, Batting, Wire, Fiberglass, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, 51 x 95 x 16cm
A Smile to Hide the Pain
2021, Foam, Wire, Fiberglass, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, 97 x 160 x 32cm
No Regrets
2022, Foam, wire, fiberglass, acrylic nails, silicone, 52 x 125 x 22cm
I Want More
2022, Foam, wire, fiberglass, acrylic nails, silicone, 128 x 54 x 25cm
More is More
2021, Foam, Wire, Fiberglass, Acrylic Nails, Silicone, 82 x 186 x 45cm
Show Me Your Teeth
2021, Chicken wire, batting, fiberglass, acrylic nails, silicone, 176 x 80 x 36cm