Julia Goodman

Instagram: @juliaannegoodman

Website: http://www.jagoodman.com

Bio: "Julia Goodman works at the intersection of papermaking, textiles, sculpture, and painting. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, DePaul Art Museum, Recology San Francisco, and Google. Goodman has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and recent exhibitions include the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, Poetry Foundation, California College of the Arts, and Berkeley Art Center. Her residencies include JB Blunk Residency, Recology SF, Creativity Explored, Salina Art Center, and The Space Program. In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 Women to Watch Award by the San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Goodman earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University. She teaches Papermaking: From Fiber to Paper at CCA and leads papermaking workshops throughout the Bay Area including Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Exploratorium, Creative Growth, and NIAD. Julia lives in the Bay Area with artist Michael Hall and their family."

Statement: My work with torn and pulped textiles reimagines rag papermaking, upending monochromatic, rectilinear, flat paper. I gather, tear, pulp and press color t-shirts and bedsheets – fabrics close to bodies day and night. I hand-form pulped fabrics into wallworks and sculptures marked by vivid hues, glowing shadows, decisive edges, and embedded traces of life. I forefront transformative human experiences and essential support by mixing different color pulped fabrics to reveal fibers, bonds and labor. Losing my father in 2007 drove me towards texture and material transformation, while having a child in 2019 deepened my connection to fabrics and reawakened me to color.