Art & Cultural Journalist
Liz Goldner writes about a broad range of subjects in her articles, profiles and reviews, while elucidating art styles, including figurative, conceptual, Light and Space and Chicano art. Her articles cover socially conscious art, the merging of art with science, California Scene Paintings, California Impressionism, and the intersection of art and politics, among other topics. She addresses the synergy between artists, artwork and the creative process, and the connections of art styles and movements to current trends.
Since 2000, she has published thousands of art reviews, critiques, profiles and articles in newspapers, newsletters, magazines and online platforms. She has won dozens of arts journalism awards.
Liz Goldner is a Substack columnist, is featured in Voyage LA, was Project Manager/Contributor of Laguna Canyon Project: Refining Artivism (2018), and is writing the book Mark and Jan Hilbert: The Love Story that Launched an Art Museum to be published later in 2025.
Main Beach, Laguna Beach (2014) “Reflections From Laguna Beach” in AICA magazine
Living in Southern California, she has written for: Art and Cake, Art Ltd. magazine, ArtScene magazine, Artillery magazine, artsNantucket, Blue Door Magazine, Coast, The Democracy Chain, Fabrik magazine, HuffPost, Irvine Weekly, LA Weekly, Laguna Beach Art Patron magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, OC Art Blog, OC Metro, OC Weekly, OC Register Magazine, Orange Coast, Orange County Register, PBS SoCal, Premiere OC, San Diego Magazine, San Diego Union-Tribune, Visual Art Source, Women in the Arts, California Art Club and others.
The Happening Encampment (1970) from Laguna Beach in the Sixties
Selected Art Reviews and Art Related Articles
- How Does a Vietnam Veteran Observe Memorial Day?
- My Memorial Day 2024 visit to our Nation’s Capital
- Will Degenerate Art Besmirch Our Country’s Soul-Stirring Art?
- Demonstrations Versus Tyranny
- Rachel Hakimian Emenaker, “Deep Roots Among Fallen Trees”
- Gustave Caillebotte, “Painting Men” at the Getty Museum
- Su Yu-Xin, “Searching the Sky for Gold” at OCMA
- Manifest Destiny: Its Artful and Artless Descendants
- Maurice Sendak: Wild Things at Denver Art Museum
- Celebrating Indigenous Art as a Healing Response to Centuries of Colonization
- Luminaries of Light: Pioneers of the California Light and Space Movement
- Fred Tomaselli, “Second Nature” at Laguna Art Museum
- The Healing Power of Art
- Upend: Female Experience and Activism
- Keith Haring, “Radiant Vision”
- Looking Back and Forward at Laguna’s Pageant of the Masters
- The Abiding Value of Art Writing
- Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora
- Judithe Hernández, “Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival”
- Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form
- The Greatest Collection of California Art That Nobody Has Seen
- A Tour Through the Newly Expanded Hilbert Museum of California Art
- Chicano Theater, emerging from the Farmworkers Union strikes
- Guernica’s Continuing Influence on art and a larger world awareness.
- Ricardo Duffy: Art as Political and Social Commentary
- Breaking the Rules displays homoerotic paintings with coded imagery
- The Depression-Era FSA Photo Project: An Agent for Social Change
- Art for the People: Conveying the Profundity of Government Arts Support
- Joseph Kleitsch: Abroad and at Home in Old Laguna
- Marking An Era: Celebrating Self Help Graphics & Art At 50
- Malka Germania: Yael Bartana’s Jungian Journey Into the Past and Present
- De la Torre Brothers Exhibition at Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art
- Retracing the 60-Year History of OCMA
- Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s
- Alice Neel retrospective at de Young Museum
- Sanford Biggers exhibition of 50 painted and embellished quilts
- Mark Chamberlain, The Irrepressible Artist
- Diego Rivera’s America at SFMOMA
- Moments of Universal Beauty in Shared Light Exhibition
Manzanita Anthers (2015) from Jessica Rath: A Better Nectar
More Selected Art Reviews and Art Related Articles
- What Art Would a Tucker Carlson Like?
- The Resonant Surface Explores Musicality in Visual Art
- The Roots of Radical Art at UCI
- Healing Through Art: PTSD Survival Stories
- Bradford Salamon’s Evolving Vision
- Judy Baca at MOLAA
- Tristan Eaton: All At Once at Long Beach Museum
- Irvine and the Larger SoCal as Seen Through a Transcendent Lens
- Looking Back at the UCI Art Department in its Founding Years
- Marie Thibeault: Views of the Harbor
- Chicana Writing Avatar Sarah Rafael García
- Orange County Great Park: A Grand Vision Gone Awry
- Corn Man: A Mexican-Inspired Animistic Sculpture
- Santa Ana’s Artists Village: The Pros and Cons of Gentrification
- Back to Iraq, Long Beach Opera Co.
- Armory Show Legacy Benefits Museum of Modern Art
- Lita Albuquerque performance and installation
- LA Raw, Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Tell (1989) from Laguna Canyon Project: Refining Artivism
Photo credits: Main Beach Laguna by Tom Lamb; The Happening Encampment, Manzanita Anthers and The Tell by Mark Chamberlain (Mark Chamberlain Tribute Video)
Image at Top of Page: Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Untitled [Vase of Flowers], 1924-25, collection OCMA. See Circles of Influence for more information.
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