Que.es; “La Casa de Vacas se abre a los colores y círculos cósmicos de Carol Brown Goldberg;” August 4, 2009
La Casa de Vacas opens up to Colors and Cosmic Circles
by Carol Brown Goldberg
Colors, cosmic circles, and an aura of spirituality are the key elements of Carol Brown Goldberg’s paintings, which are exhibited until the 30th of August in the Cultural Center Casa de las Vacas in the El Retiro park of Madrid. The exhibit, organized by the Museo Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón of Valladolid, shows the peculiar abstract and geometric style of this Baltimore artist, a style which tries to “create light” breaking away from darkness.
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Colors, cosmic circles, and an aura of spirituality are the key elements of Carol Brown Goldberg’s paintings, which are exhibited until the 30th of August in the Cultural Center Casa de las Vacas in the El Retiro park of Madrid. The exhibit, organized by the Museo Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón of Valladolid, shows the peculiar abstract and geometric style of this Baltimore artist, a style which tries to “create light” breaking away from darkness.
This exhibition, which has already taken place in Murcia and Valladolid, gathers a selection of canvases by the artist from the past four years. To compose these paintings, Goldberg has been inspired by water or the way light from the sun’s rays is reflected on broken crystals.
Goldberg begins with circles, “the simplest way to transfer light,” in order to create her own pictorial universe in which color is the priority, and which, as the artist told Europe Press, is based on a “scientific feeling, without losing the sensuality that elements such as water or earth provide.”
In her paintings, Carol Goldberg has provided a new, more personal and intimate focus to abstraction, where the combination of the ideas that inspired her, those of Bertrand Russell in the book The ABC of Relativity, and her own innovative contribution of material, have resulted in a renewal of abstract painting.
A New Abstraction
In this exhibit Goldberg proposes a new abstraction, based conceptually on what the physicist David Bohm has called “the implicate whole.” Goldberg’s abstractions propose a new effect of conjunction that results in a new spiritual esthetic that mixes the warmth of what is human with the matter of the form.
Brown, who confessed that she creates her paintings in the moment and that she never prepares sketches, defined her art as “geometric abstraction” and described herself as an artist interested in “creating light with paint.”
The Passion of Winter, What’s the Fastest Elevator in the World, I Paint the Music, and Listening to Ivy are all part of Goldberg’s collection, in which she reaffirms “the power of the center” or the “aural centers,” as Donald Kuspit explains in the exhibit catalogue.
Carol Brown Goldberg has lived and exhibited in Washington, D.C., since 1975. In 1990 she designed The Poetry of Justice, an advertisement poster for Amnesty International’s Human Rights Day. Her paintings can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Women in Arts and the New England Center for Contemporary Art of Vassar College, among many other public and private collections.
