American artist Heidi Hahn really wants the visitors to “Not Your Woman,” her new show at Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, to think about the paint, even be seduced by it. “I still remember the first painting I did. I thought, This is it, this is the love of my life. I will never get over this,” she says. Hahn was 15, and had saved up the money to buy the paint from her weekend job working at a Los Angeles retirement home. Her picture was of an imagined woman.

It’s both, Joe Goode’s art answered as the 1960s began — something surely material but purely visual. And something else besides, something curious and engaging that you haven’t ever seen before. In his strongest work, the Los Angeles-based artist — who died of natural causes in his sleep on March 22, a day before his 88th birthday — held the image and the object in eccentric equipoise. The result is an uncanny sense of vivid presence.

Joe Goode, a painter who counted as a core figure of the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s, died on March 22 at his home in Los Angeles at 87. He would have turned 88 the following day. Michael Kohn Gallery and Zander Galerie, Goode’s representatives in LA and Cologne, respectively, announced his death this week but did not specify a cause.