Brett Goodroad

"white flower tufts white petal skew

Layers of gesture northeast then, like a lifeless orbit, Back southwest till, like a brush end, dip forgetting an Early leaf’s sweetness is a list.

If clouds absorb, then blue must mean something. Maybe the molecules are free. Maybe I am an Amplifier of them. Maybe all these paddy neurons cinch .(//). Fly kick An Hour Of Catching. A palate.

I wish to describe

if to keep

to sink selling my

two flowers like eyes"

—Brett Goodroad, 2024

Greene Naftali is pleased to present Brett Goodroad’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Rainy, including a new group of paintings and works on paper.

​Brett Goodroad (b. 1979) lives and works in Prescott, Arizona. A solo exhibition of his work, titled The Letter, was recently on view at Cushion Works, San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2022; in collaboration with Cushion Works, curated by Hilton Als); ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2022); Cushion Works, San Francisco (2021, 2017); Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2019; 2015); and Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, U.K. (2018). Significant group shows include Karma, New York (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2019, 2018); and The Drawing Center, New York (2014), among others. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.