Stewart Goldman

	Self Portrait
12" x 9"	1998	oil on linen

I was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1962. I taught for 33 years at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, retiring from teaching in 2001. I have maintained a studio since moving to Cincinnati in 1968 and have an sustained an active exhibition record. This site will deal primarily with work produced during the past 25 years.

In 1989 I visited the Pergamon Museum in East Berlin. To get there I rode the subway which passed stations no longer in use and in total disrepair, seemingly as they were after the war…..fragments. In seeing Pergamon I found myself fascinated by what was present in the friezes and what was not….what apparently was destroyed over and by time. I believe that visit influenced my work in the 90s including the variations on Rubens, the landscapes, and several watercolor studies that were later translated into large oil paintings.

In 1990 I received a commission from Cincinnati Bell to paint a landscape for a 36 by 8 foot wall. Whereas the Pergamon experience was still fresh in my mind while producing this painting, I was also influenced by my encounter in 1985 with Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s, The Effects of Good and Bad Government, in Siena. In tackling this project, I came up with the concept of using a square module to the make the image. To describe it simply, I divided the entire piece into a grid and then gave each square a color. I then continued to paint the landscape from one independent square to another. Each square was a complete image unto itself but a party to the whole. All the squares are contiguous to one another and stepping back from the painting produces a sense of the whole.

Details: Landscape with Bell Tower

This approach was especially important for the paintings I produced while at the Villa Waldberta in Feldafing, Germany at the invitation of the Munich Kulturreferat in March, 1997.

Feldafing II   66" x 90" ea panel 6" sq 1997 oil on panel

In 2001 I began to work again from landscape and returned to the square. This time as I moved from watercolor sketches to a larger format in oil, I separated the squares from one another. I began to push these squares away from the direct translation of the landscape. In addition, I made certain decisions about the use of color (which has always been primary in my work), shape and interval. Those decisions, derived from my observations of the Pergamon Altar, affected the choice of color and the tension between color and shape.

Heraclitus Mind   84" sq. ea panel 12" sq 2001 oil on linen

Another interest of mine has been to explore images connected with the Holocaust. To that end I have produced a series of large paintings; a series of cherubs, as part of an installation; tape drawings and a limited edition print portfolio and book in collaboration with Holocaust survivor Dr. Anna Ornstein.

Chamber III   52" x 78" 1981 oil on linen

Cherubs from installation: Cherubs, 1995 - oil on panel - each panel 6" sq.

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Recent Work 2002-2005
Multiple Panel Paintings
Paintings 2001
Paintings Holocaust
Tape Drawings
Print Portfolio - Holocaust Memoirs
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