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Alexander RothmanAlexander Rothman is a cartoonist and poet. His work has appeared in such publications as the Seneca Review, Moonshot Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Suspect Device,and The Rumpus,and is forthcoming in the Indiana Review. He cohosts a comics-review podcast, Comics For Grownups. He is also co-editor-in-chief of INK BRICK, a journal of comics poetry. More at inkbrick.com.
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These paintings work not in the realm of intellect, but that of feeling. Goodman’s is a formalism that is never escapist or hermetic, but instead tied to an encyclopedic spectrum of human emotions, including terror, despondency, anger, hope, joy, even love. As she prepares to enter her ninth decade, Goodman has once again come upon a new abstract language that, somehow, remains intimately in touch with those important realities.
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