Gallery Gertrude Stein presents for the first time in art history sculpture-the subject of which is excrement.
Sam Goodman's NO-sculptures are part of a new wave of artistic expression concerned with social realism, social comment and expression of a personal nature in its extreme.
The excremental sculpture is a comment on the art world, the museum and gallery setup, the gullibility of the collector, and the situation as it is in general.
The excrement sculptures are a fitting answer to the light, musical-comedy type, 'sophisticated new realism' of cocktail type conversation Pop-art.
Popularly referred to as NO-art or Anti-pop-art this contemporary tendency has been kept in an underground existence and excluded from all major art manifestations by museums and galleries hee. But a major Goodman-Lurie exhibition brought to Europe by an Italian art dealer proved an astounding success there: 6,00 people visited the show within one week during its run in Rome, Italy.
Sam Goodman's NO-sculptures are excremental sculptures in cast stone. There are 23 sculptures in the show, varying from normal human size to 5 foot dripping superman excremental accumulations. The art-collectors are buying up Goodman's products in quantity.
The artist is 45 years old and has been a professional for the last twenty-five years; he exhibited in many group and one-man shows here as well as in Europe and Canada.