Julia Goodman (pronouns she/her) reimagines the centuries old Western rag paper making that depended on reusing discarded domestic fabrics. Building on this history and her environmental concerns, Goodman gathers and transforms discarded bedsheets and t-shirts into sculptural forms. She works with the pulped fabrics slowly and intricately creating entangled and expanding shapes inside her studio and outside against built structures. Her work rejects flatness and gives volume to women’s labor and interdependence.

SEE(d) looks forward to an exquisite look into Goodman’s labor intensive process in her Berkeley studio, shared with her partner, artist Michael Hall on Sunday, June 5, 3PM - 5PM. Tickets to this exclusive event can be purchased here.

Goodman’s work has been shown nationally at venues including National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Poetry Foundation in Chicago, DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and San Jose Museum of Art. Her residencies include the JB Blunk Residency (Inverness, CA), Recology SF (San Francisco, CA), Creativity Explored (San Francisco, CA) and the Salina Art Center (Salina, KS). Goodman’s work has been reviewed in publications including The Chicago Tribune, SFMOMA Open Space, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She shows with Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco. The artist earned her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University.