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Goldenberg discusses the context for his jazzy work.
I play trumpet as a hobby and I listen to jazz as I work. Even when my studio is silent, jazz is there, inside me. My imagery is jazz made visible: layers of melodies and rhythms, swinging and syncopating, calling and responding. This visual improvisation is conjured from a deep place and appears as gestures, colors, symbols, and glyphs. Shapes, textures, and patterns move through me onto my canvas. My paintings share the complexity and innovation heard and felt in the Bee Bop innovations of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker and jazz explorer of 'terra incognita,' Wayne Shorter. I call my work, ExpressaVizzazzaVeeBopanism.
I paint using vibrant colors on highly textured, innovative, shaped canvases. I build these canvases with collaged fabrics, gesso, epoxy, string, and thin plywood. They are ingeniously lightweight and durable. The jigsaw puzzle shapes in my paintings are born from forms I see in nature. They become a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things in the world. The cutouts create vacant shapes and shadows, counterpoint to the painted shapes. The outer edges jut into space, casting shadows that move as the light of day changes. Arrangements in texture are the foundation for paint. This underlayer builds rhythms and gesture and is the structural underpinning for the spatial relationships I then create in paint.
My visual language is personal yet universal. The collective unconscious shares mythological motifs and primordial images. Noticing the silhouette of a tree or a cloud, the shape of a corroded piece of metal, or a melting patch of snow can inspire them. I see these potentials for creation as images when they enter my consciousness. My canvases reveal constellations of these archetypal images. They are rooted in the unconscious just as a tree is rooted in the ground. These archetypes shape matter as I see it in nature and these same archetypes shape me as well. I use the colors, shapes, and patterns to express my connection to this universal unconscious.
Modern painters who date back to the late 19th century influence me. Manet flattened shapes and imbued his figures with symbolism like that in Byzantine Christ figures. Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso used imagery from the art of primitive tribal cultures, absorbing their archetypical symbols and spiritual essence. Painters Kandinsky and Mondrian carried these intentions forward while jazz began to shape American music. Visual artists and musicians melded ragtime, spirituals and field songs of African slaves using their call and response method and the rhythms of the forebears’ tribal music. My artwork moves this legacy forward by channeling contemporary jazz with symbolism from the universal unconscious.
My art is currently developing in several new directions. All my mediums are becoming more spatial and three. I continue experimenting with works on paper, for it is a very spontaneous medium, and its immediacy is a wonderful contrast to my oil painting process. I am bringing my vision forward with new site-specific pieces for large public and private. Currently I am negotiating with Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum to fill their request for a site-specific painting for the 2008 grand opening of their new facility. I am also currently networking with fabric designers to bring my contemporary imagery into the design industry.
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 The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.
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