Joshua is an installation artist who received his BFA from SMU and his MFA from Boston University. He has exhibited his work internationally in venues such as the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China, the Museum of the National Library in Madrid. Spain, National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina and at Loyola University, Rome, Italy, as well as the Boston Center for the Arts, Janet Turner Print Museum in California, Austin, Houston and Dallas and is represented in public and private collections around the world including the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai and the Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis. He is currently head of the printmaking and art history program at Tarrant County College South in Fort Worth, Texas and lives in Richardson, TX. His work can be seen at www.joshuagoode.com (Photo: Teresa Rafidi)
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Guerilla Hope
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Art, Feature 2, Ideas, Visual Art on 20 October 2009
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There was a major opening this weekend that could have a huge impact on this city’s art scene, writes Joshua Goode. It happened in a 5,000 square foot dilapidated building off Haskell.

A Two-Year-Old’s Gallery Odyssey
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Art, Visual Art on 22 September 2009
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On a wet night, Joshua Goode takes his two-year-old daughter on gallery tour. The tough-to-please critic finds a few diamonds in the rough.

The Presence of Absence
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Art, Feature 1, Visual Art on 8 September 2009
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A trio of artists, each representing a different country, display works at the UNT Art Gallery that communicate in uncannily similar tones a familiarity with felt loss and the identity of loneliness.

Texas Profiling
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Feature 2, Ideas on 25 August 2009
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A curator from New York recently asked me if we have any museums down here? Friends visiting for the first time from Boston seemed disappointed that I did not pick them up in a stagecoach from the airport and take them to a ranch, and they discover that Dallas is “just another big city.” Although I had explained this to them on many prior occasions, they had to see it to believe it.

Arts without Craft
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Art, Feature 2, Ideas, Visual Art on 22 July 2009
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Do we talk about the aesthetic material qualities of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain or the revolutionary ways in which it commented on contemporary art and our interpretation of it?

Building the New New Detroit
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Architecture, Art, Ideas, Urban Planning on 22 June 2009
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Free from the burden of history and free from expectations, Dallas architecture should take its cue from China: build big, large, and flashy.

Dallas, Reflections of Russia?
By Joshua Goode
Posted in Ideas on 5 June 2009
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St. Petersburg was built on a massive scale on a patch of frozen, uninhabitable swampland — announcing to Europe that “we are here.” Dallas is the largest city in the U.S. without access to a navigable body of water and is in one of the hottest regions in the country. It is building the nation’s largest arts district and the Cowboy’s Stadium.

Outside the White Box: In Quest of Alternative Art Space in Dallas
By Joshua Goode
Posted in -, Art, Ideas, Visual Art on 24 May 2009
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Dallas has no Art Community. This is a realization that hits me every time I return from another city.