Susan J. Goldman is an artist, master printmaker, curator and filmmaker. She is Founding Director of Printmaking Legacy Project® (PLP®) a non-profit dedicated to documentation
and preservation of printmaking practice and history. In 2019, she curated PLP®'s first exhibition, Forward Press: 21st American Printmaking, a major national exhibition at the American University Museum, Katzen Center for the Arts, in Washington, DC. Goldman is also Founding Director of Lily Press® whose collaborations include Sam Gilliam, Keiko Hara, Renee Stout, Victor Ekpuk and Elizabeth Catlett. Goldman received her BFA from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1981, and MFA from Arizona State University-Tempe, in 1984. Moving to Washington in 1990, Goldman taught printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art, MICA, Georgetown University, and was Master Printer/Program Director at Pyramid Atlantic. From 2000-2012 she was Adjunct Professor/Master Printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University. Goldman is a recipient of a FY21 Individual Artist Grant and a 2021 COVID-19 General Operating Support (GOS) Emergency Award for Artists & Scholars, Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD. Goldman also received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2011-12 for Midwest Matrix®, a groundbreaking documentary on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest. Goldman sustains a full-time vibrant studio practice and exhibits her own work worldwide. |
Artist Statement 2021
I’m playing with what can happen inside and outside variations on themes as they continue to reconfigure over time. My process comes out of a love of pattern, still life, antiquities and the underlying passion for color. The basic premise is beauty, making the world beautiful because the world is not always beautiful. Combining images requires a separate printing for each step. Every color impacts the composition as the layers build. What will happen when I play with and overlay different colors as several things happen at once? Structure, deconstruction, repetition and layering is playful, improvisational and full of surprises. There is an element of mystery and
I can depend on printmaking to give me back a result that I couldn't have seen at the beginning.
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I can depend on printmaking to give me back a result that I couldn't have seen at the beginning.
www.printmakinglegacyproject.org www.lilypress.com www.midwestmatrix.info