… Her works are based on a balance of biomorphic forms that echo one another in gentle tonal bands, so that the one can almost be interpreted as the shadow of another. This suggestion of shadow yields a sense of dimensionality, almost as if the ribbons and planes are actors in space that are borne by the air and shift over one another’s rise.

They are not shadows but more an agreement in the billows. Her pictures leave few clues—they are as inscrutable as the source of a gust—and yet I sense that Goodman’s mind is steeped in a quest for origins as much as for abstraction…

Excerpt from printed catalogue essay by Robert Nelson