Sanford “Sandy” Goodman
9/14/1918 - 4/17/2012
He began as a sculptor in New York, studying and teaching at the Art Students’ League with William Zorach and Jose de Creeft. Close comrades included James Baldwin, Joseph Campbell, and Phillip Guston during a productive two decades in Greenwich Village and the Maverick Art Colony in Woodstock, during which he received awards at a number of juried exhibitions.
In 1960, he left New York as part of the Exodus Group and eventually resettled with his wife and two young children in a log cabin they built on acreage ten miles outside of Ashland, Oregon. He began teaching at the local university, but soon students preferred to come to the cabin for lessons. He built a studio that became the Cabin School of Creative Expression. In 1974, he moved into town at his children’s request and continued to work until his passing in 2012. The original home has now been renovated and become the home of Wild Sage Refuge, an artist and writers’ retreat center.
Education
Saint John College, Annapolis, MD
Art Students’ League, New York, NY
Private Study of Creativity under Dr. Simeon Tropp
Private Study of Creativity under Alvin Bauman
Awards
1st Prize - Maryland Artist Annual
1st Prize - Maryland Sculptors’ Guild
Woodstock Foundation Award of Merit
Slivermine Association Annual, Connecticut
1st Prize - Huntington Art League, Long Island, NY
Exhibitions
Numerous group and one-man shows
New Shapes / New Forms, Nieman-Marcus, Dallas, TX
Museum of Long Island
Riverside Museum, New York, NY
Grants Pass Art Museum, Grants Pass, OR
Rogue Gallery, Medford, OR
4 International Traveling Craft Shows Sponsored by U.S. State Department
Working the Light, Southern Oregon Public Television Special, PBS
Touching Arteries documentary
Teaching
State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
Art Students’ League, New York, NY
Southern Oregon State University, Ashland, OR
Director, The Cabin School of Creative Expression, Ashland, OR
Publications
Incubator for Savages: Voiced Drawings, Crazy Horse Press, Los Angeles, CA 1970
Critical Writings Archived, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Commissioned Art
Rotron Manufacturing, Woodstock, NY
DCA Building, 36th Street, New York, NY
Office of Naveb Halleby, National Aerospace Administration, Washington D.C.
Office of Quillan Thom, Chico, CA
