Marian Goodman

Marian Goodman is owner of the Marian Goodman Gallery, a contemporary art gallery opened in Manhattan, New York in 1977.[1] Goodman is one of the most respected and influential gallerists of contemporary art in the world.[2][3] She is known for introducing European artists like Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, and Marcel Broodthaers to the United States[4] and has represented a number of important artists including Steve McQueen, Thomas Struth, Pierre Huyghe, Thomas Schütte, Lothar Baumgarten, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Chantal Ackerman, Niele Toroni, Gabriel Orozco, Maurizio Cattelan, Giuseppe Penone, Giovanni Anselmo, Jeff Wall, Rineke Dijkstra, and William Kentridge.[5] Marian Goodman gained prominence in the art world in the 1970s and 1980s, a time when few women worked in this sector.[6]

Career

Born Marian Geller,[7] Goodman grew up on the Upper West Side and attended the Little Red School House and Emerson College.[8][9] In 1956, Goodman was one of a group of civically engaged mothers who successfully battled Robert Moses when he tried to expand the parking lot at Tavern on the Green, forcing him to build a playground instead.[9]

Her father Maurice P. Geller, a first-generation Hungarian-American accountant,[9] collected art, particularly that of Milton Avery. Goodman, herself, became an art dealer almost by accident, as a new divorcée who needed to support herself and two children.[10] In 1962, she organized a book of cheap prints of New York paintings to raise funds for the Walden School, where her children were students.[9][11] In 1963, Goodman attended graduate school in art history at Columbia University. She was the only woman in her class.[7]

Goodman and partners opened Multiples, dealing in artists’ editions, in 1965.[8] Multiples published prints, multiples, and books by American artists, such as Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol. In 1970, the year Multiples exhibited for the first time at Art Basel, Goodman published Artists and Photographs, a 19-piece portfolio exploring the way artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christo and Bruce Nauman were incorporating photography into their work.[9]

From 1968 to 1975, Multiples worked with European artists, introducing early editions by Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Blinky Palermo and Gerhard Richter to American audiences.[12] Her failure to secure Broodthaers an outlet in New York was the impetus behind her decision to open her own gallery featuring his work as the initial exhibition. Goodman opened the Marian Goodman Gallery on East Fifty-seventh Street in 1977.[7] (Unfortunately, Broodthaers died before the opening).[11] In 1981, she moved the gallery to its present quarters, at 24 West Fifty-seventh Street. She later discovered Lothar Baumgarten when she hired him to hang the gallery’s display at a Düsseldorf art fair.[13]

Marian Goodman Gallery opened its first space in Paris in 1995. In 1999, a permanent exhibition space was opened inside the Hôtel de Montmor, a 17th-century hotel particulier in the Marais district.[14] In 2014, the gallery opened its first outpost in London, located in a 11,000 square feet space over two floors inside a former factory warehouse at Golden Square; the architect David Adjaye renovated the space.[15] In spring of 2018, the gallery's New York space exhibited the work of Anri Sala; the Paris location that of Eija-Liisa; and the London space that of Nairy Baghramian, Cristina Iglesias, Giuseppe Penone, Anri Sala, and Thomas Struth.[16]

Artists

Goodman has stated that she believes a dealer should be committed to working with an artist for fifteen to twenty years. The gallery represents leading foreign artists, including William Kentridge, the painter Gerhard Richter, the photographer Thomas Struth, the sculptor Thomas Schütte, and the mixed-media documenter Lothar Baumgarten, of Germany; the sculptors Tony Cragg and Richard Deacon and the video and filmmakers Eija-Liisa Ahtila, of Finland, Steve McQueen and Tacita Dean, of England; the installation-makers Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager, the filmmaker Chantal Ackerman, the site-specific painter Niele Toroni, and the digital animator Pierre Huyghe, of France; the Mexican aesthetic gamesman Gabriel Orozco; the sculptor and provocateur Maurizio Cattelan and the arte povera notables Giuseppe Penone and Giovanni Anselmo, of Italy; the Canadian creator of staged light-box photographs Jeff Wall; the Irish maker of gnomic slide shows James Coleman; the Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra; the Vietnamese born Danish poetic installation and performance artist who is living and working in Berlin Danh Vo; the Ethiopian creator of densely layered abstract paintings Julie Mehretu; and the South African film animator and puppeteer William Kentridge. Goodman also represents American artists Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner and John Baldessari. Kentridge, Struth and Orozco, like most of Goodman’s artists, joined her relatively early in their careers. One exception is Richter, who had three exhibitions with Sperone Westwater before deciding to show simultaneously there and with Goodman. After several years of this joint arrangement, he dropped the original gallery.[8]

Reputation

Goodman's friend German theorist and critic Benjamin H. D. Buchloh says, “Her judgment is ultimately aesthetic, but she has a broad understanding of what a privileged existence allows and requires one to do. Her gallery has a certain subtle social horizon of responsibility.”[1] In an article in the New Yorker, art critic Peter Schjeldahl said "Goodman may be the most respected contemporary dealer in New York, for her taste, standards, and loyalty to her artists." Michael Govan, director of Dia Art Foundation, describes her as one of the most powerful and influential dealers of the 20th century.

Described by Artnet as a "very private dealer,"[17] Marian Goodman was ranked 22 in ArtReview's guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art: Power 100, 2010.[18] She is ranked 5th on the list of America's Most Powerful Art Dealers, according to Forbes magazine.[19] In 2012, Goodman received an honorary degree from the CUNY Graduate Center.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 Schjeldahl, Peter. "Dealership". The New Yorker. February 2, 2004.
  2. ↑ "Marian Goodman Gallery". NYMag.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  3. ↑ "The Accidental Art Mogul". Newsweek. 2011-11-21. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  4. ↑ Day, Elizabeth (2014-10-11). "Marian Goodman: gallerist with the golden touch". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  5. ↑ Schjeldahl, Peter (2004-01-26). "Dealership". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  6. ↑ Scarisbrick, Sean. "Marian Goodman: A Life Devoted To Art". Culture Trip. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  7. 1 2 3 "Dealership".
  8. 1 2 3 Julie L. Belcove (July 2007), Marian Goodman W Magazine.
  9. ↑ Blake Gopnik (November 21, 2011), Marian Goodman: The Accidental Art Mogul Newsweek.
  10. 1 2 Ed Pilkington (October 12, 2006), Space women The Guardian.
  11. ↑ 30/40 Part II. A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery, October 23 – November 24, 2007 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
  12. ↑ Elizabeth Day (October 12, 2014), Marian Goodman: gallerist with the golden touch The Guardian.
  13. ↑ Dan Duray (September 23, 2016), Marian Goodman to open second Paris space with work by Annette Messager The Art Newspaper.
  14. ↑ Melanie Gerlis (April 10, 2014), Friendly face for Goodman in London Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. The Art Newspaper.
  15. ↑ "Marian Goodman Gallery". Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  16. ↑ "On Her 40th Anniversary, Artists Share How Marian Goodman Became the Art World's Least Pretentious Power Broker - December 2017".
  17. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  18. ↑ "5. Marian Goodman, 84". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  19. ↑ 2012 Commencements CUNY Graduate Center, May 3, 2012.
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