Squaring the Flower II, #5 by Susan J. Goldman

Prints exploring antiquity, abstraction and love of the medium by Susan J. Goldman

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 3, 1-4 pm

Susan J. Goldman's works on paper are bright and bold. These images are inspired by the ancient Greek idea of “squaring the circle,” as an expression of balance and beauty. Driven by the formal qualities of color interaction and a sense of geometrical playfulness, Goldman’s prints, encompass a spirit of experimentation and expanded logic. Transparent and opaque color blocks shield and reveal delicate, illustrative line drawings of flowers, among fragmented patterned textures, creating contrasts of fragile and strong, intense and subdued. Boundaries are nudged outward, new territory is created.

About the Artist

Susan J. Goldman, artist, master printmaker, curator and filmmaker, is Founding Director of Printmaking Legacy Project ®, (PLP®) a non-profit dedicated to the documentation, preservation and conservation of printmaking practice and history. She was curator for Forward Press: 21st Century American 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 Sam Gilliam, Keiko Hara and Renee Stout.

Goldman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1981, and Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University-Tempe, 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, she was Adjunct Professor/Master Printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University-Fairfax.

Susan J. Goldman, Squaring the Flower II, #5, screenprint, 32" x 32" Goldman received a 2011-12 National Endowment for the Arts Grant as producer and director of Midwest Matrix ®, an hour-long groundbreaking documentary 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 public collections worldwide.