SUSAN GOLDMAN

About the Artist

Susan J. Goldman, artist, master printmaker, curator and filmmaker, is Founding Director of Printmaking Legacy Project ®, (PLP®) a non-profit based dedicated to the documentation, preservation and conservation of printmaking practice and history. She is curator for Forward Press: 21stAmerican Printmaking, PLP®’s premier 2019 major national print exhibition for the greater Washington DC community, at the American University Museum, Katzen Center for the Arts. Goldman is also Founding Director of Lily Press®, which began as a private studio in 2000. Her first collaborative projects, included Elizabeth Catlett, and most recently for Sam Gilliam, Sylvia Snowden, Keiko Hara. Goldman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University-Bloom¬ington in 1981, and Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University-Tem¬pe, in 1984. After moving to Washington in 1990, Goldman taught printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, MICA, Georgetown University, and was Master Printer/Program Director at Pyramid Atlantic. From 2000-2012 was Adjunct Professor/Master Printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University-Fairfax. Goldman received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2011-12, as produc¬er and director of Midwest Matrix ®, an hour-long groundbreaking documentary videotape DVD on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest. Goldman sustains a full-time vibrant studio practice producing and exhibiting her own work nationally and internationally. Her work is in private and pub¬lic collections worldwide.

Artist's Statement

“Squaring the Flower” is an installation of twenty-four 32” x 32” screenprints. Walking past rows of prints arranged into one grand composition, I am refer¬encing both the friezes of antiquity and the ever-changing rhythms of impro¬visational jazz music. “Squaring the Flower” bridges the worlds of ancient and modern art and music. My artistic challenge has been to transform a still life form of a flower in a vase into dynamic, modern imagery. I am seeking to create balance between decorative Victorian art, as characterized by ornate shapes and patterns, and modernism, with its bold forms and bright colors. The flower gets stripped away, covered up and over-printed, yet it always finds a way back in, like a melodious refrain or a cherry blossom in springtime. Shifting 19th century two-point perspective into a single-point, aerial perspec¬tive by flattening the image and seeing it from above, is the genesis for the “Squaring the Flower” which has become in-depth exploration of color on a large scale.