Art biography by sam goodman

Introduction to SAM GOODMAN 'NO-sculptures' at Gallery Gertrude Stein, New York. May 12—May 30, 1964

by Boris Lurie

Late one night recently, early in the morning in fact, I stopped over at Sam Goodman's studio.

I noticed he had been working on a sculpture which had been discarded in a corner of his studio. It came upon me at once that this was the sculpture that had to be done by someone at this particular time: expressed in artistic terms, it was the answer, in this spring of 1964 in this City of New York.

This sculpture had to be done by Goodman only, nothing like it has ever been done before.

The artist, as if hopeless in the pursuit of a project so difficult, so full of explosive matter directed against its author himself, as well as the art-world around him, apparently had put the idea aside, in the realization of the hopelessness and d