Timothy Goodman
New York-based artist Timothy Goodman was recently asked to make an
artistic contribution to the incredibly chic and design-savvy Ace Hotel.
And what he came up with is a thoughtful, interactive piece that
encourages discovery. I loved reading about his process. Says
Timothy:
While brainstorming in the weeks before, it was important to
ask some larger questions before I started my sketch: What’s its
relevancy? What’s its importance? Can it become engaging or
participatory? Having an idea for a mural that’s both relative to
the space it exists in and reflective of the culture around it is
not an easy task to accomplish. However, I felt it was something I
had to account for.
With those questions in mind, I hand drew 99 picture frames to
create a dense wall of “discovery” about NYC
that could be passed to the common tourist staying in the room. Each
frame contains a different fact / love / tidbit / thing of
interest / or shout-out to a place I dig in the city. At roughly 120
square feet, the art was drawn imprecisely to capture the
spontaneity and grit of the city. I used paint markers and opaque
black paint to help this technique excel. Consequently, it became a
labor of love, an act of obsessiveness that was pleasantly grueling.




