Dryden Goodwin Selected Press Quotes

“It is this combination of peeping-Tom-style surveillance with a frank intimacy that makes his films so engaging. Flight, Goodwin's new film installation, follows the journey of an unseen protagonist escaping the urban jungle.”
Jessica Lack, The Guardian, January 28, 2006, on Flight at the Chisenhale Gallery, London

“Goodwin is stimulated by an unholy appetite for unforeseen, risky encounters on his sleepless wanderings through the city. He aims at catching us off-balance, ambushing our eyes and ears - an important young talent”
Richard Cork, The Times, April 17 2002 on Closer, Tate Britain, London

“Goodwin fuses the handmade and the digital in a way that feels inherently personal - and more engrossing with each successive view.”
Brian Libby, Oregonian, June 25, 2007, on Flight at the Feldman Gallery, Portland, USA

“In 2004’s Red Studies’ – portraits of friends and family – he overlays poses to create images of fluctuating intensity. Often the exquisite watercolours bracket a dawn of realisation as a look of distraction, for example, turns to one of horror”
Martin Coomer, Time Out, September, 13–20 2006, about Portrait Perspectives, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

“’Above/Below’ by the British artist Dryden Goodwin, displayed in the Clandestine section of the Arsenale, has a haunting philosophical clarity.”
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, June 18, 2003 on Above/Below the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy

“Goodwin thinks like a painter, he has great fervour for grandiose paintings and his video works all strive to be great painterly epics.”
Mike Dawson, FLUX, Nov/Dec 2003 on Dilate, Manchester Art Gallery

“Aided by an eerily layered ambient soundtrack Dryden Goodwin’s installation ‘Flight’ has a dream like quality…the drawings used in the animation reinforce the idea that something strange or other worldly has taken place.”
Helen Sumpter,Time Out, Feb 15 – 22 2006 on Flight, Chisenhale Gallery, London

“Not many artists who approach their work with such a detailed eye still realise grand visions; Goodwin is one of the few”
www.kultureflash.net, Nov 2004 on his solo show at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

“The etchings contain a tremendous quality of loss and nostalgia. Time takes on a material presence….”
Katie Kitamura, Contemporary, issue 72 2005 on State part of solo show Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

“Wait examines the act of looking and being looked at in public spaces, the ennui, the excitement and just the everydayness of spectatorship. The work succeeds because Goodwin is able to exploit the potential for theatre contained in the act of looking, because the viewer begins to devise narratives, seeking to enter the lives of the artist's subjects.”
Gayatri Sinha, The Hindu, Sep 16, 2005, about Wait shown as part of Cross Town Traffic, Apeejay Media Gallery, India

“The beautiful ceiling vault and the black and white floor tiles are used to great effect in the visual composition of the work.  This architectural setting adds formal rigour to a highly emotive piece exploring the connections between aesthetic and religious experience.”
Simon Wallis, The Burlington Magazine, Sept 2003 on Above/Below the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy

“The installation that really got people talking was Dryden Goodwin’s remarkable ‘Within’…a haunting achievement”
Jonathan Romney, The Guardian, October 17 1998, On Within part of the Pandemonium Festival, LUX gallery, London