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Elaine Marinoff Good died on May 20, 2018, at her home in New York City. She was born on September 24, 1934 in Los Angeles to immigrant parents who fled the Ukraine.
After growing up, schooling, marrying Dr. Robert Glen Good and raising a family, with fierce independence and characteristic hutzpah, at 49, she moved from Los Angeles to pursue her dream of being a fine artist in New York. And she did; painting her floor to ceiling figurative oils on canvas, and later as a writer working on her memoir.
With the mind of a businesswoman and the eye of an artist, she converted an old corroded factory in Tribeca into a stunning living space with high ceilings, arching white doorways and walls, filled with her paintings and books; living in one end, her studio in the other. She created an amazing life in the city and in Bridgehampton.
A graduate of UCLA with a study year abroad in Paris at the Sorbonne, Ms. Good also studied at the School for Visual Arts in New York, The New School for Social Research and Stony Brook University. She held a teaching position at UCLA from 1985 to 1988 as an adjunct art professor. She served on the board of directors of the Fine Arts Federation of New York City from 2002 to 2012.
With more than 20 one-person art shows and more than 100 group exhibitions, she first showed her work in California at The Laguna Museum of Art, the Downey Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work has been seen at Eva Cohon Gallery in Chicago and Galerie Woeller-Paquet and das Bilderhaus in Frankfurt, Germany, among others. Her work was influenced by world events; the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the World Trade Center attack, which she witnessed from her front porch.
She is survived by three children, Cynthia, Glendon and Bradley Good; and four grandchildren, Alden, Julien, Lance and Max. She has two surviving sisters, Susan Schrag and Debbie Marinoff; many devoted friends and her adored cat, Krissy.
A memorial service was on May 29 at Edgewood Cemetery in Bridgehampton.
Memorial donations may be made to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, arfhamptons.org.
on May 24, 2018