How Brett Goodroad’s Paintings Became a Surprise Hit with the Art World

Artist Brett Goodroad can still recall the bizarre feeling he had when he completed his 2021 solo show at Cushion Works in San Francisco. “There’s this strange thing that happens, and I’m sure other painters will talk about it: you go to the opening of all this work that you’ve done, and you have this moment of incredible alienation,” he said in an interview. “You can’t understand the work for a while.” The mood was made only more atypical by the a