Carol Brown Goldberg has been exhibiting in Washington, D.C. since 1975. She earned her BA in American Studies at the University of Maryland, and then trained at the Corcoran School of Art under Gene Davis, winning the Eugene M. Weisz award upon graduation. Since that time, her paintings have been in over a hundred solo and group shows in the United States, Europe, Russia, and Central America.
In 1989 and 1990, Goldberg produced and curated a 14-part lecture series, “Voices of Our Time,” which explored the relationship between art and science—a long held interest for the artist. Her work has been exhibited at the American Center for Physics, and other science related institutions. In addition, Goldberg has produced work in support of organizations such as Amnesty International, the Black Student College Fund, and the Bosnian Human Rights Group.
Since 2005, Goldberg has produced a series of “Circle Paintings,” so named for the grid of circles that overlay her large abstract canvases. Fifty-five of these works were exhibited at The American University’s Katzen Center in 2007. This exhibition traveled throughout Spain with the Gabarron Foundation, and then moved to Mexico, where the works are currently being shown in their second and third venues in Monterrey and Mexico City.
Her paintings are included in The New Orleans Museum of Art, The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Collection (2006 and 2009), the National Museum of Women in Arts, the New England Center for Contemporary Art, Vassar College, the University of Maryland at College Park, The George Washington University Museum, the Deland Museum of Art, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive, as well as many other public and private collections.
Concurrently with her painting, in 2009, Carol Brown Goldberg completed her first large-scale metal sculpture and has been developing a series of small bronzes over the past year.
In coordination with a 2010 opening of Carol Brown Goldberg’s work at Lebanon Valley College, distinguished critic and art historian, Donald Kuspit, presented a paper on the artist’s work. This lecture represents a continued engagement with Goldberg’s career, and a continued desire to locate her work in the history of abstraction and 20th Century Art.
Carol Brown Goldberg taught painting and drawing as an Adjunct Professor at American University from 1998 to 2005.
