La Crónica de Hoy; “Mi pintura busca plasmar la evolución del tiempo: Carol Brown;” Juan Carlos Talavera; February 27, 2010 (Culturas)
“My Paintings Try to Capture the Evolution of Time”: Carol Brown GoldbergThe dilemma of time, the positioning of an individual in confrontation with the universe, and the beauty paradigm are some of the concepts that the painter and sculptress Carol Brown Goldberg represents in her exhibit The New Abstraction, “where forces come together and are freely manifested, far from manipulation and human intervention, such as in the story of the universe”, she stated.
Goldberg is of the opinion that a way to link abstract art with reality is through light. This is what occurs in her exhibition containing 28 medium-size paintings presented in the Fundación Sebastián until March 26.
Where are we human beings positioned as part of the universe? And where are we found as a part of time? These are some of the questions that Goldberg considered when she created her latest artwork.
Born in Baltimore, Goldberg believes that abstraction is an evolving style that has a lot in common with mathematics “because of the fact that it looks for intangible concepts, even though they exist conceptually. This is what occurs with my paintings, where the concept of space is reached for an instant but refers back to an abstraction that can’t be captured”.
Goldberg explains that the main link of her art’s abstraction with reality is found in the brightness that it reflects. “It is pulverized glass that applied to the paintings emulates the first connection of human beings with life.”
“When babies find their mother’s eyes, we could say that that unidentified brightness links them with a reality, a direct human connection with life”, she added.
She stated that “abstraction is like mathematics; one cannot touch numbers, although one might have them in one’s mind, or the concept of volume, of a quantity. This is what happens in the exhibit; one has a concept of space that can be penetrated or touched but which is not a concrete thing; it can’t be held”, she explained.
Finally, Goldberg points out that with her art “I do not look for a utopia, but rather the progressive evolution of time, as occurs in nature”.
The art show can be seen at Avenida Patritismo 304, Colonia San Pedro de los Pintos, from 10:30am to 2:00pm and from 4:00pm to 6:00pm from Monday to Saturday. Free admission.
