Forthcoming from Un-Gyve Press
Prospectus: Collected Works Joan Goldin
As a medical artist, with a sharp eye and pencil, Joan Goldin translated complicated surgical procedures into clarifying images; those illustrations have been used in numerous medical publications, including Atlas of Advanced Surgical Techniques. With matching precision and persistence, she came to create many other kinds of images within various worlds of thinking and feeling.
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“It takes a long time to peel a melon, and skill not to break the fine tissue that holds its form. The color is exquisite and the membranes intricate. I had the same feeling when observing the dissection of the human body: awe and respect.”
— Joan Goldin
Joan Goldin’s work is continually re-seeing, revising, with many a take on any given view, and her art comes alive in the capacities of various media: photography, oil, charcoal, graphite.
All this, whether magnifying the minuscule, elevating the mundane (and making even death life-affirming), or recording, with a superb feeling for fear, the dissection of a melon, a goat, and again and again a hare.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read
The hunter’s waking thoughts.
W.H. Auden, 1935, in (of all the imagined imaginative places) The Dog Beneath the Skin.
Joan Goldin, too, has the powers of an artist-huntress who, reaching to what is beneath the skin, never loses touch with — or sight of — the very skin itself.
Joan Goldin in her studio, photographs: Deborah Oropallo
Representing three decades of work largely made in her studios in Chicago and New York City, Collected Works Joan Goldin is forthcoming from Un-Gyve Press in 2023 with an essay from Christopher Ricks.
The book, a cloth-covered hard back, is expected to constitute nearly 400 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-9993632-5-6