Artist Carla Goldberg's "CANACDEA" LANDSCAPES IN RESIN opened on Beacon's Second Saturday, June 9, with a reception from 4 to 6pm at the Bannerman Island Gallery at 150 Main Street, Beacon.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born and raised in Southern California, Carla Goldberg moved to the East Coast at age 22 to pursue her graduate degree in Painting at MICA in Baltimore, Maryland. In their weekend travels, Carla and her husband stumbled onto the Hudson Valley in 1990 and it was love at first sight. She and her husband and two daughters now call Putnam County, NY home. Her work can be seen in numerous public corporations and private institutions.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
The play of light seen behind a transparent surface is a theme that runs through all of my work over the last 20 years - whether abstract or more representational. Having always been an abstract painter the local landscape has grabbed my attention. The landscape is ever changing either by nature, time or man. Part meditative, my paintings are as much about that transformation, evolution and juxtaposition as they are about finding small moments of pure peace and beauty. It’s all around us, but most of the time it’s hidden behind the distraction of man-made visual noise. For the last two years I've been working with layers of poured resin, acrylics, oils, interference paints, rubbed wax and in some works adding boxes glued into cut canvas. Each layer beneath is closer to the past. In a sense, the paintings are a sort of reversed archaeology, layer upon layer covering past brush strokes.
Many of the titles for this series come from sailors’ shanties and old Dutch and regional tales from all along the Hudson River. You can still find places in the Hudson Valley where the view is unchanged from those of the Hudson River School of Art of past centuries. I like to think that I’m one of many carrying on the tradition, but on my own terms and with my own particular take.
Don't miss this exciting show. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the sale of the paintings are donated to The Bannerman Castle Trust, Inc The BCT recently received a matching grant of $350,000 from The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation EPF Challenge Grant. Help is needed to to raise the $350,000 match.
Gallery hours are: Friday Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5pm. Noon to 9 pm on Second Saturdays .For information about Bannerman Island Tours and The Bannerman Gallery, call Neil Caplan at 845-234- 3204.
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