Dorian Goldman
Dorian Goldman is a New York-based sculptor whose work explores the profound intersection between the human form and the natural world. Rooted in a tactile, material-driven practice, her sculptures range from intimate figurative studies to monumental organic forms, rendered in clay, wood, marble, and cast bronze.
Her journey began in California, where she apprenticed with production potter Larry Murphy in San Francisco and studied at Big Creek Pottery in Santa Cruz. There, she developed a lasting affinity for hand-building techniques that would shape her artistic path. She later earned both a BA/BFA and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania.
Deeply influenced by nature, meditation, and her lived experiences as a gardener and beekeeper, Dorian creates works that evoke botanical life, seed pods, sprouting form, and resilient female figures. Her forms often straddle the boundary between the anatomical and the organic, revealing a sculptural language grounded in growth, transformation, and strength.
In addition to her studio practice, Dorian has held teaching positions in sculpture and drawing at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the Brockton Art Museum. Her academic work reflects a commitment to mentoring emerging artists and fostering a deeper understanding of form, process, and material.
Her creative pursuits extend beyond sculpture; most recently, she collaborated on the full-scale restoration of a mid-century Norman Jaffe beach house, applying her sculptural sensibilities to architecture, landscape, and interior design.
Dorian’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the Japan Society, the Art Students League of New York, Next Level, Lift Trucks Art, and Yellow Studio, and is held in numerous private collections. In addition to her extensive studies domestically, she has completed international residencies, including stone carving in Carrara, Italy and ceramics with master potter Otani Shiro in Shigaraki, Japan. Dorian continues to draw from these global traditions while expanding her exploration of the natural world through sculpture.
"I am a being who is most at home in nature, whether breathing cool, crisp air, planting a garden with my hands deep in the soil, or observing a seed pod crack and sprout triumphantly. I am an avid gardener of fruits, flowers and vegetables. I raise chickens and cultivate bees. My meditation practice has attuned me to the oneness of the planet and the interconnectedness of all. The poetry of plants, on the edge of the forest, exhaling the oxygen I breathe in, as I exhale the C02 they consume. Everything alive is connected. We are all of the same molecules.
My work explores the connections between the body and forms in nature: the torso that looks like a seed pod or an emerging sprout, the skeletal orchid bending under its own weight, or a figure reaching for the light. I focus on the female form as I can feel its connectedness to everything. At one time, we were all both male and female, embedded and nurtured in the female torso." - Dorian Goldman
Joyce/Reaching for the Light
Patinaed cast bronze and stone base
17 x 5 x 4 in
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$6,000
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Reclining Vegetables I
Patinaed cast bronze and stone base
4 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 6 in
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$7,500
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Reclining Vegetables II
Patinaed cast bronze and stone base
3 1/2 x 8 x 6 1/4 in
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$8,000
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Torso on Armature
Patinaed cast bronze and stone base
16 x 3 x 2 1/2 in
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$8,500
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Twisted Torso
Patinaed cast bronze
19 x 10 1/2 x 9 in
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$11,500
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Wood Torso
Carved walnut
26 x 9 x 10
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NFS
Patinaed cast bronze edition available, $18,500