Judith Goldman


Judith Goldman is a writer, curator and publisher who lives in New York City.

Early life

Born in Chicago, Goldman attended Bard College, where she majored in literature and studied woodcut with Louis Schanker; she briefly attended the Institute of Design in Chicago, where she studied etching with Misch Kohn.

Career

Beginning her career as an editor, Goldman was managing editor of Artist’s Proof ;
founding editor of The Print Collector’s Newsletter . From 1977 to 1991, she was advisor and then curator of prints at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, where exhibitions she organized included: “New York
on Paper” ; “Jasper Johns, Foirades/Fizzles”; ; “American Prints, Process &
Proofs” and “Frank Stella, A Print Retrospective”, 1982. As an independent curator, she
has organized : “Rosenquist, The Early Pictures” ; “Frank Stella, A
Painting Retrospective” ; “The Pop Image, Print & Multiples”
;” Frankenthaler, The Woodcuts” ”; “The Painted Sculpture of Betty Parsons” ; “Robert
and Ethel Scull, Portrait of a Collection” ; “Phoenix, Xu Bing at the Cathedral,” ; “James Rosenquist, His American
Life,” Acquavella Galleries 2018). In 1999, she established the Blue Heron Press which has published etchings and lithographs by Walton Ford and Elliott Puckette. That same year, she established Deuce II Editions to publish artists’ books and prints.

Books and publications

She is the author of Windows at Tiffany: The Art of Gene Moore ; American Prints: Process & Proofs,, 1981;Jasper Johns, 17 Monotypes ;Jasper Johns: Prints 1977 – 1981 ; James Rosenquist ; James Rosenquist, The Early Pictures ; Helen Frankenthaler, The Woodcuts, ; Robert & Ethel Scull, Portrait of a Collection. Her essays have appeared in The Village Voice, New York Daily News, Vogue, Art in America, The Art Journal, Print Quarterly and ARTnews. In 2014, Deuce II Editions published Xu Bing's four-panel lithograph The Suzhou Landscripts.

Awards

Art Critics Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1978