Nancy Marmer is a writer, art critic and editor who lives in New York City.
[5] She has taught at the Mellon Seminar, Rhode Island School of Design, the Visual Arts Department of the University of California, San Diego, and the English Department of the University of Minnesota.
Called one of "the earliest critics who attempted serious explorations of modern art in California"[6] and a critic of Los Angeles avant-garde art,[7] Marmer has written about numerous California artists, among them Ed Ruscha,[8] Richard Diebenkorn,[9] James Turrell,[10] Ron Davis,[11] Ed Moses,[12] and Alexis Smith.
[13] She is author of "Pop Art in California," a survey of the movement on the West Coast.
[19] Marmer was married to the novelist Gerald Jay Goldberg, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.