Golden Dodge 1971

Ralph Goings, with a brush and a lot of patience, offers us this vintage scene. I wonder what it was like to stand in front of this Golden Dodge, a relic of some ordinary American town. The chrome details are calling to me, and the reflections on the glass so carefully rendered—the building across the street and the clear sky create a painting within a painting. What's so fascinating about this is how Goings elevates the everyday. It's like he's saying, "Hey, look closer. There’s beauty and complexity even in the mundane." The way the light hits the hood of the truck and the tire treads resting in the truck bed is a kind of meditation on light and texture. Goings encourages us to look again, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. He reminds us that all artists are in dialogue, finding new ways to see and express the world around them.