carlagoldberg

The play of light seen behind a transparent surface is a theme that runs through all of my work. My imagery centers around the Hudson River landscape and alludes to evolution as if they were pieces of archeology.

ABOUT CARLA GOLDBERG

 I have known I was going to be an artist from the time I was 4 years old. I was watching Bugs Bunny standing in front of an easel dressed as a French street painter with his cute little beret, dashing smock, twirled up Dali-esque mustache and a paint brush and thumb poised in the air. I’ve been a painter ever since.

EDUCATION:
1989 M.F.A. Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA)-Mount Royal Graduate School of Art (Studied under Babe Shapiro & Salvatore Scarpitta)
1987-B.A. University of Redlands, California. Studio Art Honors/Art History (studied under John Nava & John Brownfield. 

CARLA GOLDBERG is originally from Palm Springs, California. She’s a So Cal Desert Rat who has called the Hudson Valley home since 1990. She graduated with honors from the University of Redlands, CA. and earned her MFA from MICA-Mount Royal Graduate School of Art in Baltimore, MD. She is a current member of bau gallery (Beacon Artists Union), a contributing member of the Beacon Art Salon and a council member of the international coalition of artists known as Mirca Art Group. She has been publicly juried into the Saatchi Showdown Top 50, which regularly receives over 45 million hits per day. Her work has been featured in solo and group shows nationally and internationally in galleries, universities and museums.

Additionally she has created large group shows and projects. Among these include the Centennial Celebration for the University of Redlands covering 8 decades of living alumni artists and the “Freedom & Art project” which still raises funds for Amnesty International in support of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.  The project received coverage from the BBC Radio Free Asia and many other international news entities.

It is the Hudson’s imagery, history, lore and river science that inspires and informs Carla's art. Her explorations into textures through non-traditional techniques, the play of light seen behind transparent surfaces and references to water are recurring themes. Her layering of materials alludes to an evolution of events as if they are being seen in the context of archeology or discovery in watery depths and cracked earth. Carla sees her work as mapping the unseen. Her passion for the Hudson River has spurred her to use art to educate the public about the ecosystem and science of the Hudson River through her imagery.