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“Allure” Cast Bronze, 2021-2025 Propel & Reveal 2026 (Cast bronze) “Passage” McCormick’s Place Convention Center, 2018
(Panoramic View)
“We look to the past to point us forward, measuring our ideas against those that have come before, and hoping to achieve something that has not yet come.”

Neil Goodman "Monuments” Klein Gallery, Chicago, 2003 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art “Sound of the Woods”
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden 2024 Shadows & Echoes Gateway Studies 2021 "With major public works throughout the Midwest, including permanent large-scale pieces at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Goodman has established himself as one of the foremost sculptors working today."
Gregg Hertzlieb Brancusi, the great twentieth-century sculptor, stated that “simplicity is complexity resolved.” Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park "But whether the drama is slow or is swift in Goodman’s rumination, it is informed by technical skills of the highest sort. His sensitivity to the possibilities of bronze, of its patina and luster, of its malleability, of it simultaneous properties of coolness and great heat is sharp indeed, and place him in a special tradition of consummate bronze craftsman…”

James Yood “Sound of the Woods”
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden 2024
If I could see the last works when I was beginning, the relationship between older and earlier work might surprise me. One step led to another, and although the thread has always been there through the years, the line is very different from beginning to end. "Goodman is a sculptor in the old school sense. He is not an orchestrator of technicians, but a maker and a builder."

Margaret Hawkins
 “These images leave me dazzled by the prospect of layering the pieces in a sight line that creates multiple tiers of space and emptiness.”

William Hanks. Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology “Passage”
McCormick’s Place Convention Center 2000 “Rivers & Valleys” Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, 2026 Indiana University Northwest Four Corners Manilow Sculpture Park Passage Cast Bronze Neil Goodman select works neil goodman Neil Goodman Twilight Neil Goodman Sculpture “Allure” Cast Bronze, 2021-2025

American Sculptor Neil Goodman has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the country. Goodman’s sculpture was included in the seminal 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art’s opening exhibition “History of Chicago Art, 1945-1995.” 

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“Allure” Cast Bronze, 2021-2025 Propel & Reveal 2026 (Cast bronze) “Passage” McCormick’s Place Convention Center, 2018
(Panoramic View)
“We look to the past to point us forward, measuring our ideas against those that have come before, and hoping to achieve something that has not yet come.”

Neil Goodman "Monuments” Klein Gallery, Chicago, 2003 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art “Sound of the Woods”
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden 2024 Shadows & Echoes Gateway Studies 2021 "With major public works throughout the Midwest, including permanent large-scale pieces at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Goodman has established himself as one of the foremost sculptors working today."
Gregg Hertzlieb Brancusi, the great twentieth-century sculptor, stated that “simplicity is complexity resolved.” Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park "But whether the drama is slow or is swift in Goodman’s rumination, it is informed by technical skills of the highest sort. His sensitivity to the possibilities of bronze, of its patina and luster, of its malleability, of it simultaneous properties of coolness and great heat is sharp indeed, and place him in a special tradition of consummate bronze craftsman…”

James Yood “Sound of the Woods”
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden 2024
If I could see the last works when I was beginning, the relationship between older and earlier work might surprise me. One step led to another, and although the thread has always been there through the years, the line is very different from beginning to end. "Goodman is a sculptor in the old school sense. He is not an orchestrator of technicians, but a maker and a builder."

Margaret Hawkins
 “These images leave me dazzled by the prospect of layering the pieces in a sight line that creates multiple tiers of space and emptiness.”

William Hanks. Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology “Passage”
McCormick’s Place Convention Center 2000 “Rivers & Valleys” Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, 2026 Indiana University Northwest Four Corners Manilow Sculpture Park Passage Cast Bronze Neil Goodman select works neil goodman Neil Goodman Twilight Neil Goodman Sculpture “Allure” Cast Bronze, 2021-2025

American Sculptor Neil Goodman has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the country.
 Goodman’s sculpture was included in the seminal 1995 Museum of Contemporary Art’s opening exhibition “History of Chicago Art, 1945-1995.”

READ FULL BIOGRAPHY