NEIL GOODMAN: Rivers & Valleys
September 4, 2026 – October 17, 2026
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, 325 W. Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
NEIL GOODMAN Rivers & Valleys Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is pleased to present Rivers & Valleys, a solo exhibition of sculpture by Neil Goodman. Bringing together recent works in bronze, the exhibition reflects both a continuation and an evolution of Goodman’s decades-long exploration of line, mass, void, material, and space. After nearly forty years in Chicago, Goodman relocated to Los Alamos on California’s Central Coast, exchanging the industrial landscapes of Chicago’s South Side and Gary, Indiana, for rolling hills, agricultural valleys, and oceanfront cliffs. Rivers & Valleys emerges from this transition, absorbing the rhythms of a new landscape into an abstract sculptural language developed over the course of his career. Central to Goodman’s practice is bronze, a material whose history includes ancient vessels, classical statuary, monuments, tools, and objects of ritual. As art historian Sue Taylor notes in her accompanying essay, Goodman’s relationship to bronze is also deeply physical, rooted in the resistance of the material and the processes of making.