GOODE Tidings

"It's like the Factory.. .with a restaurant."

ERIC GOODE

f P. T. Bamum had grown up in Marin County, been educated at Parsons, and been a bit more bashful, he'd have been Eric Goode—the artistic free spirit who created a legendary nocturnal circus at his New York club, Area. The thirty-year-old Goode's freakish vision can now be seen at his first one-man art exhibition (at Manhattan's 56, Bleecker Gallery, Ltd.) and at his new, eclectic Fifth Avenue night spot, a fourstory affair replete with Louis XIV chairs, Darwinian artifacts, and an aquarium. "It's like the Factory on a tiny scale with a restaurant,'' says Goode. "We've invented the home of an eccentric, elderly, billiard-playing gent who's traveled the world." Goode's own monstrous constructions (which also populate the club) recall Joseph Cornell boxes of creepy oddities with their skulls, gold vibrators, and freeze-dried pigs. He calls them "eerie shrines—with humor." —A.J.