Eunice Golden

Eunice Golden
Born	1927 (age 89–90) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting, photography, filmmaking
Movement	Figurative art, feminist art

Eunice Golden (born 1927) is an American feminist painter from New York City. She is best known for exploring sexuality using the male nude. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Westbeth Gallery, and the SOHO20 Gallery, among others.

Golden pursued a degree Psychology at the University of Wisconsin before leaving school to focus on her art. In the 1960s Golden's dramatic artwork converged with and paralleled the ideas expressed by the women's liberation movement. In 1971, Golden joined the Ad Hoc Committee for Women’s Art spearheaded by Lucy Lippard. In 1973, she joined the group Fight Censorship, whose other members included Anita Steckel, Hannah Wilke, Louise Bourgeois, Judith Bernstein, Martha Edelheit, Juanita McNeely, Barbara Nessim, Anne Sharpe and Joan Semmel. Golden was a founding member of the all-women co-op gallery SOHO20, where her work was exhibited for nearly a decade.

Golden's early output conveys the political anger, antic humor and conceptual experimentation that characterized the early women's liberation movement. Her paintings in the 1960s and 1970s focused on the male nude as a way to explore sexuality, struggle, and desire. Golden's controversial and radical work challenged entrenched ideologies. In 1977, The Whitney included her signature work, "Landscape 160" in "Nothing But Nudes", which was applauded in Art International by Carter Ratcliff. In 1973 she began exploring performance, body-art, photography and film. In the 1980s her work focused on portraits and satiric anthropomorphic studies. In the 1990s she completed her "Swimmers" series which was centered around the closeness of mother and child. Golden is part of the same artistic movement as David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and Louisa Chase.

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