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Sculptural installation by Neil Goodman, Biography, (cast bronze, ______, 2011). The image of a sculptural wall installation illustrates a major mid-career body of work by Neil Goodman, which he first explored in the mid 1990s and pursued into the 2010s, his site-specific wall installations of hand-wrought, bronze objects. They feature free-floating, modular arrangements of from two dozen to over 100 organic, abstract and geometric forms that read like code or language. Goodman also experimented with similar floor arrangements. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent art museums and galleries, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications by prominent critics, and commissioned by museums.

Artist Neil Goodman. Copyright held by the artist.

Neil Goodman

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a major mid-career body of work by Neil Goodman beginning in the mid-1990s: his site-specific wall and floor installations of hand-wrought, bronze objects. They feature free-floating, modular arrangements of from two dozen to over 100 objects that read like code or language and emphasize dynamic rhythms achieved through contrasts between horizontal and vertical lines, organic and geometric shapes, and activated negative space. Critics likened the groupings of seemingly natural, ceremonial and utilitarian artifacts to a museum archaeological display or tools organized on a pegboard, and in particular, note the objects' intimacy and detailed textures. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key phase and shift in his work and its reception and impact, which included major exhibitions, national reviews, and museum commissions. Goodman's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Neil Goodman, and the installation no longer exists in this form, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.