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Light Up with Nikolas Soren Goodich

When you walk into Nikolas Soren Goodich's gallery, you are met with tremendous illuminated plexiglass frames. A buzzing fills your ears, and you are instantly immersed within the world of Goodich's art; the bright yellows and warm oranges fill your visual senses as the sound coming from the lights quiet the outside world. Nikolas Soren Goodich first made one of these light installations for 6 years now, playing with how the pieces are perceived from every angle, how the paint moves within the plexiglass, and how the light affects the viewer's perception of the work itself.

 

His massive side profile portraits look like someone has been cut in half and laid bare on the slab. Using this simple graphic symbol, he explores the paradox between what the eye sees and how the brain perceives it; he allows materials to find their own way, a biomorphic experiment through art. The paintings twist and turn, finding new directions on either side of the plexiglass works. Each layer is a print of an original painting created on one side of the plexi panels. He then hand-monoprints from one panel to another, finally assembling them on canvas as single works or diptychs. His techniques, which entail a certain loss of control, are an essential part of his practice, allowing nature to take over within the pieces, taking aspects of the final image out of his own hands.

The light being emitted off of these pieces are something extraordinary and vital in Goodich's work. The way that light can shift the atmosphere in a room and control a person's mood is exciting. He sees these pieces as functional works that can live within a person's home, but something much more extensive and impactful to the community he calls home. Goodich hopes to open up his own community center in South Central Los Angeles, made entirely of his plexiglass lightboxes. Art was so fundamental in his life that he hopes to bring that back to a community that is not often prioritized within the city he lives in.

 

Goodich implements light itself to highlight the interior layers of each painting. The light being emitted off these pieces is something extraordinary and vital in Goodich's truly unique artworks. The way that light from within the works can shift the atmosphere in a room and control a person's mood is at once both serene and calming, visceral and exciting. He sees these pieces as functional artworks that can live within a person's home and, also become something extensive and impactful in com. Art has always been fundamental in his life, and he hopes to bring that same energy to this project in such underserved communities like South LA, where his African American mother grew up. He’s also looking as far afield as the Hudson Yards in New York or Berlin or China for places where he also wants to create his luminous painting community center buildings, that will be works of Public Art in and of themselves and foster a place for adults and youth to be creative as well. Goodich hopes in the next five years to realize his dream of making a community center in South Central Los Angeles made entirely of his plexiglass light-wall paintings. .

 

Goodich will be bringing his luminous plexiglass installations to the 2021 Miami Art Basel. Make sure to see his new work at CONTEXT ART MIAMI from November 30 to December 5, 2021, at Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Booth B5. Nikolas Soren Goodich is represented by Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Los Angeles. 

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