Carla Goldberg
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Carla is a member of bau Gallery (Beacon Artists Union), a contributing member of the Beacon Art Salon and a Council Member of the International Coalition of Artists known as Mirca Art Group. She also started Insight Gallery in Cold Spring, NY, in the summer of 2009, focusing on artists of the Hudson Region as an alternative and temporary art-space. Additionally, she has curated large group shows, including the Centennial Celebration for the University of Redlands and the Freedom & Art project which brought together a diverse group of 74 International Artists from 27 countries together as a fundraising format for Amnesty International in support of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma. The project received coverage by the BBC Radio Free Asia and has become a traveling exhibition that started in Beacon, and 3 other Hudson Valley venues and has gone on now to Cape Town, South Africa. She is also the new Gallery Director of Skylight Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Her art has been shown nationally and internationally in galleries, universities and museums, and can be found in public spaces and private collections. |
| ARTISTS STATEMENT
My work has been called liquid rhythm. It is the fluidity of line, coupled with the use of watery looking resin, which I am known for. My bodies of works travels in sister paths to rivers and other flowing waters over the last several years, cohesively beginning with the series “Soundings”, which concentrated on the landscape of the bottom of the Hudson river and underwater topography, and then continued in the series “Bodice of the Goddess”, which focused mainly on the lore of female river spirits. “The May Night Maidens”, my current series, goes further afield and explores Russian myth and the darker realm of the tragic and violent female spirits called the “Rusalki”, or Drowned Maidens, who haunt the rivers and lakes throughout the world and across many cultures.</p> <p>In my relationship between me, and my art, I see myself as a weaver of information, because I am in actuality creating a new mythology. I paint about water and folklore mixed with science. In much the same way that my mixed media works are made up of traditional and non-traditional elements, the goddess folklore stories I explore from many cultures are used as inspiration and altered. I find they mix easily with local legends, history, and river science to create these new goddess images. What Inspires It is the Hudson River’s imagery, quality of light, history, lore and river science that inspires and informs my art. My explorations into textures through non-traditional techniques combined with the play of light seen behind transparent surfaces along with references to water are recurring themes. My layering of material alludes to an evolution of events, as if they are being seen in the context of archeology or discovery in watery depths. I map the unseen. My passion for the Hudson has spurred me to use art to gently educate the public about the ecosystem and science of the Hudson Tidal Estuary. Through my imagery I hope to spark interest in others in finding out more about the ecosystem sensitive Hudson and it’s significant history as “Americas First River”, a term coined by conservation advocate Robert Kennedy Jr. |
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