John Goodyear was an artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in the year 1930 and eventually settled in Grosse Ile, Michigan. He taught at the University of Michigan in Grand Rapids from 1956 to 1962. During this time, while painting his house, Goodyear conceived the idea of creating art in the third-dimension. This led to the creation of works that straddle the line between painting and sculpture, incorporating moving parts that invite the viewer to interact. In 1962, he was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation, which allowed him to teach at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for two years.
While at UMass, Goodyear prepared a collection of works for the grant, which would later become his first solo exhibition at the Amel Gallery in New York in 1964. These three-dimensional paintings featured suspended open grids with canvases adorned with patterns. These kinetic constructions quickly gained recognition from prestigious museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, all in 1965. In 1966, Goodyear was featured in three separate exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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