“Across the specific differences among Goicolea’s works, the artist tirelessly excavates human weakness, awkwardness, and discomfort. Toward the end, he returns again and again to his themes of adolescent sexuality, unflinching self-exploration, and the contest between victims and victimizers.

We are torn between the desire to witness these strivers and underdogs evolve gloriously into calm, powerful grown-ups, and wanting to observe the Peter Pans as they play out the struggles of adolescence—such apt metaphors for the rest of life’s battles—into eternity.”  — Jennifer Dalton