The Art work of Jon Goldman

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An avid painter, working in the misch technique which combines egg tempera and oil, Mr. Goldman recieved his Masters in Science in Visual Studies from MIT at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, his B.A. at Connecticut College ( Theater) and attended Middlesex University in London, The National Theater Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Jon Goldman has won many awards including an InterArtsw grant fromt he NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation for his computer controlled intereactivity with inflatable sculpture. Goldman currently runs his studio, THOUGHT BALLOON MEDIA, which serves as a laboratory for the development and exhibition of new work. His work is in many collections including the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design’s permanent collection.

inflatable urchin lamp Smithsonian Institute’s CooperHewitt National Museum of Design

Jon Goldman is a painter, media artist and documentary filmmaker. His innovative and diverse work includes gigantic inflatable sculptures which have been exhibited in and on musuems, galleries and buildings throughout the U.s., Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. He has produced for Al Jazeera International’s People and Power and has also produced, written and edited numerous industrial videos, animations, has designed furniture, lighting and branding programs since the eighties.


paint I have been painting for many years now and in a variety of media. I suppose my favorite forms are watercolor and egg-tempera on oil or “misch� technique. This is the formal way of painting of Breughel, and Bottecelli and requires a paintstaking amount of time, underpainting and many eggs. But the control one gets both with the luminance and the brush stroke really makes this the technique I most enjoy. As for the watercolor it is often done as a sketch, for an oil and is a looser way with less steps to produce.


piece of rhesus egg tempera on oil ground

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digital image

uprooted 2007 digital photo

Ever since I wrote my thesis TOWARDS LARGE_SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE for my Maters at MIT (1985), I have been working in the digital image making. The current work has been about the hybridization. Uprooted2007 concerns a year without a home to call our own as my family and I went through renovation. It is also a nod to my huge New Orleans-based family who has been surviving since Katrina Rita.




oto

of time



my stone wings digital photo




characters

character design/animation digital drawings


far left In the webisode “headcheese” a conservative talk show degrades to a shouting match held by characters’ opposing views. Writer: Jim Uhls. Animation: Jon Goldman


new painting

study

18” x24” MIxed media on paper

many heads mixed media on paper

study

18” x24” MIxed media on paper


Corn Crib

52”x 48” egg tempera with an oil ground on canvas. (In the collection of John and Ann-Leith Hill.)


new painting

Jim Uhls

20” x24” Egg tempera on board

Ed

8” x10” Watercolor on paper


Gene

8” x10” Watercolor on paper


landscape

Aquinna

48” x30” watercolor on paper


Quissett

48” x30” Watercolor on paper


the path

18� x24� Egg tempera on board


The knob

20� x24� Egg tempera on board


(Chatham, Massachusetts)

Chatham Bars Light.

photography


from the circumnavigation series

Young boy ( Manila)


sculpture

urchin

(inatable costume)


novalunie (inatable costume)


Jon Goldman ______________________________________ Called a “digital renaissance man” by the Boston Globe, Jon Goldman is a media artist specializing in art and technology. While his concentration is currently focused on digital video his work is informed by his training as a painter, a sculptor and a director for the stage. Goldman’s most produced for Al Jazeera International’s People and Power show a segment on the efforts of a Louisiana chemist to fight for environmental justice in the post Katrina gulf Coast. Mr. Goldman received his Masters in Science in Visual Studies at MIT (1985) at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and his B.A. in Theater at Connecticut College, attended Middlesex University in London, the National Theatre Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has won many awards including an InterArts grant from the NEA and Rockefeller Foundation for his computer-controlled interactivity with the inflatable sculpture. Goldman currently runs his studio, THOUGHT BALLOON MEDIA, which serves as a laboratory for the development and exhibition of new work. His past innovative work of gigantic inflatable sculptures have been exhibited in and on museums and galleries throughout the U.S., Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. His work is in many collections including the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design’s permanent collection.


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