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| First Name | Roger |
| Last Name | Goldenberg |
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I play trumpet as a hobby and I listen to jazz as I work. My artistic language reflects my love for music especially jazz and improvisation. Even when my studio is silent, jazz is there, inside me. My imagery is jazz made visible: layers of melodies and rhythms, swinging and syncopating, calling and responding. This visual improvisation is conjured from a deep place and appears as gestures, colors, symbols, and glyphs. Shapes, textures, and patterns move through me onto my canvas. My paintings share the complexity and innovation heard and felt in the Bee Bop innovations of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker and jazz explorer of 'terra incognita,' Wayne Shorter. I call my work, ExpressaVizzazzaVeeBopanism.
I paint using vibrant colors on highly textured, innovative, shaped canvases. I build these canvases with collaged fabrics, gesso, epoxy, string, and thin plywood. They are ingeniously lightweight and durable. The jigsaw puzzle shapes in my paintings are born from forms I see in nature. They become a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things in the world. The cutouts create vacant shapes and shadows, counterpoint to the painted shapes. The outer edges jut into space, casting shadows that move as the light of day changes. Arrangements in texture are the foundation for paint. This underlayer builds rhythms and gesture and is the structural underpinning for the spatial relationships I then create in paint.
In Spring of 2004, Roger Goldenberg's paintings were chosen by the Boston Globe's Calendar Choice pick of the week. Goldenberg has been praised in the news media as a "high quality abstract artist," his paintings are "a close metaphor for the best jazz"...remarkable for their "expertly choreographed compositions." His abstract pieces are like "improvisational conversations in paint" that develop in his subconscious mind. Chris Millis, the former Living Arts Editor for Boston's South End News and current editor for artsMEDIA, exclaimed that "these are paintings you could 'listen' to forever."
Last year Roger was awarded the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2006 New Hampshire "Home-Based Business Champion of the Year." He was lauded by governor John Lynch at an awards ceremony sponsored by the NH Small Business Association. |
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