Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works

“With their gestural brushstrokes atop grids of colored dots, Carol Brown Goldberg’s recent paintings are a sort of marriage of abstract expressionism and op art. But that hardly explains the appeal of these captivating canvases, which are precisely rendered and grandly romantic.”

– Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, January 8, 2013

“In her paintings she repeats her particles implicitly beyond infinity. When one looks closely at those circles, which we could imagine to be musical notes, it seems as if we are listening to those notes.”

– Guadalupe Loaeza, El Norte, “El caos y la belleza,” October 10, 2009

This exhibition of Carol Brown Goldberg’s recent work features more than 30 paintings, sculptures, and video that examine the themes of light, color and repetition that unite her oeuvre. Goldberg’s preoccupation with physics and the cosmos, especially her fascination with circles and their elemental nature, informs her work across a range of media. Her approach is both meditative and meticulous: what appears in her art to be most free and chaotic soon reveals its deeper purpose when viewed in the context of her painstaking artistic method. The Color of Time, a video piece, acts both as the artist’s statement and as a framework for all the work in the exhibition. The video recently won the Award for Excellence in the Best Shorts Competition in La Jolla, California.

Goldberg produced and curated a 14-part lecture series, “Voices of Our Time,” which explored the relationship between art and science. She has taught at American University and University of Maryland, was Artist in Residence at Chautauqua Institute, and is the recipient of the Maryland State Arts Award.

Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center since 2002, has curated the exhibition. The Katzen Center for the Arts at the American University Museum will host the exhibition in 2017 after the national tour. Goldberg’s works are in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art and National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as outdoor sculpture installations at The Kreeger Museum, the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, and George Washington University.

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