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]

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 an 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] 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 will conduct exhibits at other locations throughout the city beginning in Fall 2021.[17]

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 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,"[28] Marian Goodman was ranked 22 in ArtReview's guide to the 100 most powerful figures in contemporary art: Power 100, 2010.[29] She is ranked 5th on the list of America's Most Powerful Art Dealers, according to Forbes magazine.[30] In 2012, Goodman received an honorary degree from the CUNY Graduate Center.[31]

References
  1. Schjeldahl, Peter. "Dealership". The New Yorker. February 2, 2004.
  2. "Marian Goodman Gallery". NYMag.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  3. "The Accidental Art Mogul". Newsweek. November 21, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  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".
  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. 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. Douglas, Sarah. "Marian Goodman gallery to close London space, institute new exhibition model". ARTnews. Penske Business Media. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  17. Numbers: Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists? New York Observer, September 7, 2012
  18. Gareth Harris (September 28, 2018), The Art Newspaper.
  19. Dan Duray (May 24, 2012), Marian Goodman Well Represented at Documenta New York Observer.
  20. Numbers: Which New York Gallery Represents the Most Warhol-ian Artists? New York Observer, September 7, 2012
  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. Jackie Wullschlager (October 2, 2015), Lunch with the FT: Marian Goodman Financial Times.
  24. Andrew Russeth (March 15, 2012), Danh Vo to Marian Goodman New York Observer.
  25. Claire Selvin (July 9, 2020), Juan Muñoz Estate Departs Marian Goodman Gallery After 30 Years, Joins David Zwirner ARTnews.
  26. Robin Pogrebin (July 28, 2016), Gagosian Lands Jeff Wall New York Times.
  27. "On Her 40th Anniversary, Artists Share How Marian Goodman Became the Art World's Least Pretentious Power Broker - December 2017".
  28. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  29. "5. Marian Goodman, 84". Forbes. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  30. 2012 Commencements Archived June 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine CUNY Graduate Center, May 3, 2012.
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