Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

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Thyrza Nichols Goodeve is an art writer, artist, and interviewer active in the field of contemporary art and culture. Since 1999 she has been on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, teaching in the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Program, MFA in Art Practice, MFA Computer Arts and undergraduate art history and film. From 1995-97 she worked as a research associate at the Whitney Museum of Art on the American Century Exhibition. From 1998-99 she was Senior Instructor at the Whitney Independent Studio Program. She has taught in the MFA Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design under Bill Seaman, and is the program coordinator for the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Summer Intensive: "MICA in NYC (DUMBO)".

Goodeve has published numerous essays in Artforum, Parkett, Art in America, Artbyte, The Guggenheim Magazine, The Village Voice, and Camerawork. She has worked closely with artists Matthew Barney, Ellen Gallagher, Yvonne Rainer, Michael Joaquin Grey, Matthew Ritchie, Joseph Nechvatal, Heide Hatry, Eve Andrée Laramée, the Quay Brothers as well as written on Jeff Koons, Raymond Pettibon, Tony Oursler, Lesley Dill. She has written on subjects as diverse as vaudeville, the art of doodling, and the metaphysics of flowers and animals and been a visiting artist at both the Banff Center and Mildred’s Lane run by J. Morgan Puitt and Mark Dion. Her writing falls within creative non-fiction. She also draws (cartoodles).

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, Middlebury, Connecticut and Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts. In 1975, through NMH, she attended The American School of Tangier where she met Paul Bowles and Mohammed Mrabet, key influences on her career as a writer. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College (creative writing, film, philosophy), an MA from New York University (Cinema Studies), and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz under Donna Haraway and James Clifford. She appeared as the graduate student in Yvonne Rainer's 1985 film The Man Who Envied Women and has been featured in artists’ works by Joseph Nechvatal, Bradley Rubenstein, and Ellen Harvey. She lives in Brooklyn Heights.

Published books

  • How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway, New York: Routledge. 1999.
  • Ellen Gallagher. London: Anthony d’Offay, 1999
  • Cremaster 5, Matthew Barney Cremaster 5, New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York: Frankfurt am Main, 1997.
  • Louise Bourgeois, Collaboration with Paolo Herkonhoff, New York: Phaidon Press. 2003

Published essays

  • The Artist’s Book: A matter of self-reflection, for One of A Kind: The Unique Artist’s Book, curated Heide Hatry, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, Mass, Spring, 2011.
  • Lesley Dill: “Words Have Wings that Fly from the Mouth of Others; Performance in the Art of Leslie Dill, 2008-2010,” Lesley Dill (Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2009
  • James Barsness: Icons of Comic Relief, George Adams Gallery, 1999.
  • Reflections On An Omnivorous Visualization System: An Interview With Matthew Ritchie. Proposition Player, catalogue essay, Houston Museum
  • Matthew Barney 95: Suspension [Cremaster] Secretion [pearl] Secret (biology), Parkett #45, November 1995.
  • Mariko Mori’s Cyborg Surrealism, Parkett Magazine, Winter 1999.
  • Hit By The Eidôlon: Abstraction as Phenomenal Experience, catalogue essay, 2011
  • How Like a Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway, Routledge, 1999
  • Ellen Gallagherv, Anthony d’Offay, London
  • The Horror of No Longer Remembering The Reason or for Forgetting When then Time Comes The Troops Will Do The Remembering, Artforum 1989
  • 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
  • Tom Friedman, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (contributor: feature essay)
  • Reflections on an Omnivorous Vizualization System: An Interview with Matthew Ritchie, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 2004
  • Louise Bourgeois New York, Phaidon Publications (with Paolo Herkenhoff)
  • Peter Halley: Maintain Speed, New York D.A.P., (contributor)
  • Matthew Barney-Tony Oursler-Jeff Wall, Sammlung Goetz:Munich, Germany 1996 (contributor)
  • 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
  • Guggenheim A to Z, ed. Nancy Spector New York: Guggenheim Museum (contributor)
  • The American Art Book, New York, Phaidon Press, 1999 (contributor)
  • Cremaster 5 Matthew Barney catalogue (With a text by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Frankfurt am Main; 1997
  • 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
  • The Spirit of the Doorway" James Barsness, Monster's Progress, Hard Press, West Stockbridge, MA, catalogue essay by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, 1999
  • 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
  • TERROIR, The Alchemy of Capitalism, in Not A Rose by Heide Hatry (Charta Books, 2012)
  • Twilight of the Art World. From Representation to Ontology in the Work of Matthew Barney, in Embodied Fantasies, ed. Suzanne Anker and Sabine Flach, 2012.
  • The Wind Is Here But My Head is Not, in Heads and Tales by Heide Hatry (Charta Books, New York, 2009)
  • Meat is the Nobody, Meat After Meat Joy Catalogue, Pierre Menard Gallery, 2009
  • Michael Rees and Thyrza Goodeve: Conversation published at http://www.michaelrees.com
  • Excerpted in Model Behavior catalogue, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, 2009.
  • How A Body Shaped By A Cat and A Cat Shaped by A Human Pioneered A New Species of Cinema, exhibition catalogue Carolee Schneemann, (Boston: Pierre Menard Gallery) 2007.
  • Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids A Review of Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2007
  • The History Lesson: Flesh is Text As Much As Color : Ellen Gallager, Parkett Magazine, 2007.
  • What is Called Tom Friedman?, Tom Friedman, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006.
  • The Myth is a Muscle, The Muscle is a Code: Post-911 Notes on Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle in Art Becomes You, ed. Henry Rogers, 2006
  • Archives and Gyms: Sports in the Art of Matthew Barney and Vito Acconci, Trans, fall 2001.
  • To Sit With The Speed Addict (essay on Sarah Morris’ work), Parkett, 61, 2001.
  • Index entry for Guggenheim: A-Z, ed. Nancy Spector. Directory to the Guggenheim Museum Collection. 2000.
  • “Richard Serra and the Brain: A Form Not Seen Before,” 2000. Artbrain.org
  • “To Make Is To Question: Vito Acconci 1968-2000.” Essay for 2000 Hugo Boss catalogue, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fall 2000.
  • "The Spirit of the Doorway" in Monster's Progress: The Work of James Barsness, Hard Press, West Stockbridge, MA, catalogue essay, 1999.
  • Rainer Talking Pictures: An Interview with Yvonne Rainer, Art in America, 1997, also collected in Yvonne Rainer, A Woman Who: Essays, Interviews, Scripts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
  • You sober people...” Essay on psychopharmacology and cyborgs, in When Pain Strikes, ed. Bill Burns, Cathy Busby, Kathy Saw chuck (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
  • The New Generation of Shadows: Mediums, Automatons, and Liminal Insight in the Work of Tony Oursler. catalogue essay for Tony Oursler Retrospective (two year tour) Hanover Gallery, Germany, spring 1998.
  • The art of Public Address: Barbara Kruger, Cover Story, Art in America, Nov, 1997.
  • Euphoric Enthusiasm: Jeff Koons’ Celebration, Parkett #50, 1997.
  • PUPPY: The New Nature, Catalogue essay on Jeff Koons’ PUPPY for Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Spain), on the occasion of the museum’s opening. October 1997
  • These Are the Forms that We Live With: A Conversation with AZIZ+CUCHER, Exhibition catalogue, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, 1997.
  • Houdini’s Premonition: Virtuality and Vaudeville on the Internet, Leonardo Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon, October/November 1997.
  • Dream team: A Conversation with The Brothers Quay, Artforum, April, 1996.
  • Raymond Pettibon Reads Henry James, Parkett #47. Fall 1996.
  • Art as Encyclopedia, History as Vaudeville, (Cady Noland) Parkett #46, May 1996. Recollected in Parkett (book made for exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art).
  • Travels in Hypertrophia: An Interview with Matthew Barney, Artforum, May 1995, Reprinted with new introduction as The Logs He Carries Are Too Large: An Interview With Matthew Barney in Sammlung Goetz catalogue, Munich, Germany: Matthew Barney, Tony Oursler.
  • How Like A Goddess: An Interview with Allucquére Rosanne Stone, Artforum, September, 1995.
  • No Wound Ever Speaks For Itself, essay on the work of sound artist/theorist Gregory Whitehead, David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, and visual work by Karen Bermann. Artforum, January 1992.
  • The Horror of No Longer Remembering The Reason for Forgetting or, When then Time Comes The Troops Will Do The Remembering, Artforum, 1989. Special issue on “Wonder.”

External links

  • “Mythic Creatures:Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids” A Review of Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2007
  • “The White Outside the Line: September 11, 2001. A Reader's Response” SF Camerawork, 2004
  • “Surrealism and the Cyborg”, Art Lab Spring 2003, Volume 1 (School of Visual Art online publication)
  • “The Ear” (Premise for cartoodle) Ars Interpres Publications, Issue 2, September 2004
  • “Richard Serra and the Brain: A Form Not Seen Before” Artbrain online journal
  • Interview with Aziz+Cuchar,1999, Published as a small booklet
  • “Houdini’s Premonition: Virtuality and Vaudeville on the Internet”, Leonardo Fifth Annual New York Digital Salon, October/November 1997
  • “Travels in Hypertrophia: An Interview with Matthew Barney” Artforum, May 1995
  • “How Like A Goddess: An Interview with Allucquére Rosanne Stone” Artforum September, 1995
  • “The art of Public Address” : Barbara Kruger - Interview - Cover Story, Art in America, Nov, 1997
  • Rainer talking pictures - independent filmmaker Yvonne Rainer - Interview, Art in America, July, 1997
  • Book Review: “The Cyborg Handbook”, ed. Crystal Hayes in ArtForum, Summer, 1996
  • “Dream team: A Conversation with The Brothers Quay in ArtForum, April, 1996
  • Book Review: “The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate” ArtForum, March, 1994
  • Book Review: “The Politics of Everyday Fear” ArtForum, Summer, 1994

See also

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