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DANCING ON SAGE, 1997
Encaustic on linen over panel
36 X 48 inches
$14,000.
HOLLOW ROCK FIELD, 1992
Encaustic on linen over panel
24.5 x 32 inches
$8,000.
WHITE HILLS, 2001
Encaustic on linen over wood 24 x 30 inches $8,000.
SKULL, 1999
Encaustic on linen over wood 30 x 24 inches
$8,000.
Goldberg had traveled in England in 1978, staying for a month in an Elizabethan country home near Sussex, visiting ancient Roman ruins and Greek revival manors. He would later travel extensively in the western regions of the U.S., particularly the Southwest where the artist visited Zuni and Navajo reservations, Anasazi ruins and Hopi pueblos.
In 1980, Matthew Kangas said of Goldberg, "His true significance lies in the fact that he turned his back on 'mysticism' in art and squarely faced the more rewarding challenges of 20th century painting (cubism, neo-plasticism, abstract expressionism, color field painting), as routes to personal expression."
Much of Goldberg's work seems relative to architecture. Suggestions of archeological relics, mosaic panels, floor plans, doors, tunnels, arches, windows and columns, have figured in nearly every body of work.
His current work (at top of page), once again, follows a few parallel paths. He continues to mine his fascination with abstractions of the rural landscape. Concurrently, he investigates a severely reduced composition?a field of richly nuanced whitish grey edged with small bands and rectangles of high key color intruding ever so slightly into it.
Without being in any way derivative, these are mindful of the late Mondrian works but also of Motherwell's ongoing Open Series in which he would create a painted space suggestive of the openness of doors or windows without being at all representational.
WALL GHOSTS, 1999
Encaustic on linen over wood, 24 x 28 inches $8,000.
DREAM TOWN, 1996
Encaustic on linen over wood 24 x 30 inches
$8,000.
SPECTRE, 1995
Encaustic on linen over wood, 23 x 27 inches
$7,500.
DENSE PACK, 1983
Acrylic on wood
49.5 X 24 x 14 inches
$12,000.
ELLIPSE, 1971
Encaustic on linen over panel
14.5 X 25.5 inches
$6,000.
PORTRAIT OF A LINE, 1980
Encaustic on linen over wood 24 x 22 inches
$7,000.
