The Black Rider Show | gwynngoodner

Lucky Day

Oil on panel 18x24"

November's Cold Chain Made of Wet Boots and Rain

Oil on panel 16x16"

The First One's Always Free

Oil on panel 16x16"

Pietá

Oil on panel 24x18"

The Watch As We Bleed: Uvalde

Oil on panel 18x24"

Harry's Harbour Bizarre

Oil on panel 16x16"

I Want to Build a Nest in Your Hair

Oil on panel 16x16"

Curtain Call

Oil on panel 18x24"

Beware Elaborate Telescopic Meats

Oil on panel 16x12"

You Won't Come Home With a Bunting: Sandy Hook

Oil on panel 18x24"

Until the Very Last One

Oil on panel 16x20"

Thoughts and Prayers

Oil on panel 18x24"

The Black

Rider show//

Composer Tom Waits and director Robert Wilson collaborated on, "The Black Rider," a theatre piece that I found deeply affecting. Adapted from the Weber opera "Der Freischütz," the fable of love and loss haunted me for years. The 2020 Covid Pandemic prompted me to explore those Black Rider themes and images that had been rattling around in my head and I started committing them to paint. In the series I explore the Faustian bargain that we as a nation have struck over our love of guns. I am trying to examine our relationship with gun violence and the increasing sense of division, isolation and loss we have because of the Second Amendment.

"Come on along with the Black Rider, we'll have a gay old time. lay down in the web of the black spider, i'll drink your blood like wine. And when your done, you'll cock your gun, the blood will run, like ribbons through your hair."

Gwynn Goodner

The Black

Rider show//

"Come on along with the Black Rider, we'll have a gay old time. lay down in the web of the black spider, i'll drink your blood like wine. And when your done, you'll cock your gun, the blood will run, like ribbons through your hair."

– Tom Waits