Marian Goodman

Marian Goodman (born 1928) 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 Akerman, 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]

Early beginnings

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] Multiples also operated a space on La Cienega Boulevard on the Westside of Los Angeles for two years in the 1970s.[13]

Goodman's 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.[14]

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.[15]

In 2014, the gallery opened an outpost in London, located in an 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft) space over two floors inside a former factory warehouse at Golden Square; the architect David Adjaye renovated the space.[16] At the end of 2020, Goodman announced the London space would close due to the impacts of Brexit and COVID-19 and be replaced by a new initiative, Marian Goodman Projects, that has been conducting exhibits at other locations throughout the city since 2021.[17]

In 2022, Goodman appointed Emily-Jane Kirwan, Rose Lord, Leslie Nolen, Junette Teng and Philipp Kaiser as partners in the Marian Goodman Gallery. The gallery also established an advisory committee of five longtime staff members to support the partners.[18] Also in 2022, the gallery announced that it would expand to Los Angeles by 2023, taking over a 1,200 m2 (13,000 sq ft) warehouse campus from the 1920s in Hollywood, designed by architectural firm Johnston Marklee & Associates and located at 1120 Seward Street.[19]

Artists

Goodman has stated that she believes a dealer should be committed to working with an artist for fifteen to twenty years. The gallery mostly represents leading non-American artists, including:

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]

Goodman also represents American artists, including:

In addition to living artists, Marian Goodman Gallery also handles the estates of the following:

Marian Goodman Gallery has in the past also represented the following artists:

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,"[41] Marian Goodman was ranked 22 in ArtReview's guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art: Power 100, 2010.[42] She is ranked 5th on the list of America's Most Powerful Art Dealers, according to Forbes magazine.[43]

Recognition

In 2012, Goodman received an honorary degree from the CUNY Graduate Center.[44] In 2016 she received the Leo Award, presented by Independent Curators International.[45]

References
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  2. "Marian Goodman Gallery". NYMag.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
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  4. Day, Elizabeth (October 11, 2014). "Marian Goodman: gallerist with the golden touch". the Guardian. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  5. Schjeldahl, Peter (January 26, 2004). "Dealership". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  6. Scarisbrick, Sean. "Marian Goodman: A Life Devoted To Art". Culture Trip. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  7. "Dealership". The New Yorker. January 25, 2004.
  8. Julie L. Belcove (July 2007), Marian Goodman W Magazine.
  9. Blake Gopnik (November 21, 2011), Marian Goodman: The Accidental Art Mogul Newsweek.
  10. 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. Maximilíano Durón (8 June 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  13. Elizabeth Day (October 12, 2014), Marian Goodman: gallerist with the golden touch The Guardian.
  14. Dan Duray (September 23, 2016), Marian Goodman to open second Paris space with work by Annette Messager The Art Newspaper.
  15. Melanie Gerlis (April 10, 2014), Friendly face for Goodman in London Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine The Art Newspaper.
  16. Douglas, Sarah (October 22, 2020). "Marian Goodman gallery to close London space, institute new exhibition model". ARTnews. Penske Business Media. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  17. Zachary Small (July 29, 2021), Marian Goodman Appoints Five Partners New York Times.
  18. Maximilíano Durón (8 June 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  19. Numbers: Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists? New York Observer, September 7, 2012
  20. Maximilíano Durón (June 8, 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  21. Dan Duray (May 24, 2012), Marian Goodman Well Represented at Documenta New York Observer.
  22. Dan Duray (May 24, 2012), Marian Goodman Well Represented at Documenta New York Observer.
  23. Dan Duray (May 24, 2012), Marian Goodman Well Represented at Documenta New York Observer.
  24. "Mariana Telleria, Sola, loca, mala, 2013".
  25. Jackie Wullschlager (October 2, 2015), Lunch with the FT: Marian Goodman Financial Times.
  26. Andrew Russeth (March 15, 2012), Danh Vo to Marian Goodman New York Observer.
  27. Maximilíano Durón (June 8, 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  28. Maximilíano Durón (June 8, 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  29. Maximilíano Durón (June 8, 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  30. Marian Goodman Now Represents Tavares Strachan Artforum, 11 March 2020.
  31. Maximilíano Durón (June 8, 2022), Marian Goodman Gallery Becomes Latest to Expand to Los Angeles ARTnews.
  32. Gareth Harris (September 28, 2018), Nan Goldin signs up with Marian Goodman Gallery The Art Newspaper.
  33. Daniel Cassady (March 29, 2023), Photographer Nan Goldin Joins Gagosian, Departs Marian Goodman Gallery ARTnews.
  34. Thomas Lawson, September 1983, Allan McCollum at Marian Goodman Gallery Artforum.
  35. Craig Owens, September 1983, Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference Art in America.
  36. Claire Selvin (July 9, 2020), Juan Muñoz Estate Departs Marian Goodman Gallery After 30 Years, Joins David Zwirner ARTnews.
  37. Numbers: Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists? New York Observer, September 7, 2012
  38. Alex Greenberger (December 7, 2022), Legendary Painter Gerhard Richter Gets Exclusive Representation with David Zwirner ARTnews.
  39. Robin Pogrebin (July 28, 2016), Gagosian Lands Jeff Wall New York Times.
  40. "On Her 40th Anniversary, Artists Share How Marian Goodman Became the Art World's Least Pretentious Power Broker - December 2017". December 20, 2017.
  41. "22. Marian Goodman - the ArtReview Power 100". Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  42. "5. Marian Goodman, 84". Forbes. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  43. 2012 Commencements Archived June 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine CUNY Graduate Center, May 3, 2012.
  44. Hannah Ghorashi (30 June 2016), Independent Curators International Honors Marian Goodman With Its 2016 Leo Award ARTnews.
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