Amy Goldman; Artist and USC Educator
Amy Goldman, an artist and former director of art education and pre-college programs at USC, has died. She was 40.
Miss Goldman died Monday at UCLA Medical Center of brain cancer, family friend Richard de Atley said Friday.
After her right side was paralyzed by the tumor in 1988, she developed new skills as a painter, using her left hand to create expressionistic works.
Her latest exhibition opened Thursday at the Art Store Gallery on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Trained as a printmaker at Cal State Long Beach, where she earned her master of fine arts degree in 1978, Miss Goldman turned to drawing as her primary professional medium. Using colored pencils and an airbrush, she produced minutely detailed drawings of nature, including rock formations in Joshua Tree National Monument.
Her work was purchased by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Security Pacific National Bank and the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers. Her drawings were exhibited at the Roberts Art Gallery in Santa Monica, the Brand Gallery in Glendale and the Image Gallery in San Francisco.
In addition to her duties at USC, she taught at West Los Angeles Community College, Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Dominguez Hills. In 1986, she was named outstanding art educator by the California Art Education Assn.
Miss Goldman is survived by her parents, George and Anita Goldman, of Pompano Beach, Fla., a sister, two nephews and one niece.
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