It’s All About the River
by Carla Goldberg
Artist Statement
This installation is made from crushed GE light bulb glass, scraps of tissue paper from Hanukkah presents, an end roll of paper from a company that makes paper holiday napkins, a moth found on a window sill, over-pours of resin from the process of making my artwork, Xeroxed fish, and fishing line. These are things we usually give no further thought to and toss away as part of the regular flow of the detritus of 21st century life. I see the world differently. What’s one person’s rubbish is another’s goldmine. Trash can have elements of real beauty in it if you look at it as free materials to create with.
There are many pressures on the Hudson River ecosystem. It isn’t just pollution. The ecosystem is also stressed from the introduction of non-native species of flora and fauna. This installation is focused on the fish populations under stress, whether due to reduction in numbers or overpopulation of foreign species. The Xeroxed fish float, ghost-like, reminding you that maybe one day you might not be able to see these threatened species in person. Some day you may only know them from pictures—a pale copy of the original.
Carla Goldberg is is a full-time professional mixed-media fine artist, an independent curator, and the Director at BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY. She has curated exhibitions all over NY, Southern California, Berlin- Germany, Skogas- Sweden and as far as Cape Town- South Africa. She recently sat on the exhibitions committee of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, a think tank bringing exhibition opportunities to women nationally. Her own artworks have been shown in over 200 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in museums, universities and galleries including The Tabernacle, MoMA Wales, The Brooklyn Waterfront Museum and the Dolmabahce Palace Istanbul, Turkey.
by Carla Goldberg
Artist Statement
This installation is made from crushed GE light bulb glass, scraps of tissue paper from Hanukkah presents, an end roll of paper from a company that makes paper holiday napkins, a moth found on a window sill, over-pours of resin from the process of making my artwork, Xeroxed fish, and fishing line. These are things we usually give no further thought to and toss away as part of the regular flow of the detritus of 21st century life. I see the world differently. What’s one person’s rubbish is another’s goldmine. Trash can have elements of real beauty in it if you look at it as free materials to create with.
There are many pressures on the Hudson River ecosystem. It isn’t just pollution. The ecosystem is also stressed from the introduction of non-native species of flora and fauna. This installation is focused on the fish populations under stress, whether due to reduction in numbers or overpopulation of foreign species. The Xeroxed fish float, ghost-like, reminding you that maybe one day you might not be able to see these threatened species in person. Some day you may only know them from pictures—a pale copy of the original.
Carla Goldberg is is a full-time professional mixed-media fine artist, an independent curator, and the Director at BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY. She has curated exhibitions all over NY, Southern California, Berlin- Germany, Skogas- Sweden and as far as Cape Town- South Africa. She recently sat on the exhibitions committee of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, a think tank bringing exhibition opportunities to women nationally. Her own artworks have been shown in over 200 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally in museums, universities and galleries including The Tabernacle, MoMA Wales, The Brooklyn Waterfront Museum and the Dolmabahce Palace Istanbul, Turkey.