"Jack Goldstein"
Artforum, New York, January 2002, p.64
A card-carrying member of the '80s "Pictures" fraternity, Jack Goldstein all but disappeared for the better part of the '90s. But with last summer's rehanging in New York of the seminal 1977 exhibition that launched the movement, art history is suddenly up for grabs. Pursuing an in-depth analysis of the hallucinatory textures of mediated experience, Goldstein raided the Industry archives, at first thriftily and then less so. The famous film loop of a barking celluloid German shepherd gave way to an increasingly baroque, less familiar kind of image, like the spectacular night skies of 1982-85. Timely though it may be, this first stab at a retrospective, organized by Yves Aupetitallot, may still sound a cautionary note with respect to the lionizing process.
Jan Tumlir