Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is a writer and interviewer active in the field of contemporary art and culture. She is on the School of Visual Arts faculty, active in the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Program, the art history program, and the masters computer art and film programs. She teaches also in the MFA Digital + Media Program at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the program co-ordinator for the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) "MICA in NYC (DUMBO)" Summer Intensive program in Brooklyn, New York. She has published in Artforum, Parkett, Art in America, Artbyte, Guggenheim Magazine, The Village Voice, Tribeca Trib and Camerawork.

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Background

Goodeve was born in Middlebury, Connecticut where she lived until her family moved to Windham, Vermont. Her brother is actor Grant Goodeve. She attended the Westover School and Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts.Through NMH, she attended The American School of Tangier where she met Paul Bowles and Mohammed Mrabet, key influences on her becoming a writer. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA from New York University and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She appeared as the graduate student in Yvonne Rainer's 1985 film The Man Who Envied Women. She lives in Brooklyn Heights.

Selected books and texts

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve to date has published the following books and texts (among others): How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway, Ellen Gallagher, A Painter in III Acts, Peter Halley, Louise Bourgeois, The Monster’s Progress: The Art of James Barsness, How A Body Shaped By A Cat and A Cat Shaped by A Human Pioneered A New Species of Cinema in the exhibition catalogue Carolee Schneemann, The Wind is Here But MY Head Is Not in Heide Hatry's book Heads and Tales published by Charta in 2008, and The Body is No Body in the Meat After Meat catalogue.

References

  1. How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway, Routledge, 1999
  2. Ellen Gallagherv, Anthony d’Offay, London
  3. The Horror of No Longer Remembering The Reason or for Forgetting When then Time Comes The Troops Will Do The Remembering, Artforum 1989
  4. How A Body Shaped By A Cat and A Cat Shaped by A Human Pioneered A New Species of Cinema in exhibition catalogue Carolee Schneemann, Boston: Pierre Menard Gallery, 2007
  5. Tom Friedman, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (contributor: feature essay)
  6. Reflections on an Omnivorous Vizualization System: An Interview with Matthew Ritchie, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 2004
  7. Louise Bourgeois New York, Phaidon Publications (with Paolo Herkenhoff)
  8. Peter Halley: Maintain Speed, New York D.A.P., (contributor)
  9. Matthew Barney-Tony Oursler-Jeff Wall, Sammlung Goetz:Munich, Germany 1996 (contributor)
  10. Eileen Neff: “To See is Neither in nor of the Eye Essay on the photographs of Eileen Neff, Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction exhibition catalogue. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA., 2004
  11. Guggenheim A to Z , ed. Nancy Spector New York: Guggenheim Museum (contributor)
  12. The American Art Book, New York, Phaidon Press, 1999 (contributor)
  13. Cremaster 5 Matthew Barney catalogue (With a text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Frankfurt am Main; 1997
  14. Icons of Comic Relief, James Barsness Icons of Comic Relief, catalogue text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; 1997
  15. The Spirit of the Doorway" James Barsness, Monster's Progress, Hard Press, West Stockbridge, MA, catalogue essay by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, 1999
  16. I Heard A Voice, The Art Of Lesley Dill, Words have Wings That Fly From The Mouths of Others: Performance and the Art of Lesley Dill catalogue essay text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, 2008

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