Brenda Goodman
"Betwixt", 2024
Graphite, crayon, colored pencil, watercolor, printed paper collage
Unframed: 12 x 15 inches (30.5 x 38.1 cm)
Framed: 19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York

Selected by John Yau

Brenda Goodman was born in 1943, in Detroit, MI. She received her BFA from the College of Creative Studies, from which she also received an honorary doctorate in 2017. Goodman began her career as a member of the Cass Corridor Movement in the 1960s, before moving to New York in 1976. In 2015, a 50-year retrospective of her work was presented at the Center for Creative Studies and Paul Kotula Projects in Ferndale, MI. That same year, her work was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual invitational, where she received the Award in Art.

Her work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, among others. Goodman lives and works in Pine Hill, New York.