Carol Brown Goldberg (born 1940) is an American artist working in a variety of media."An arresting display at A Gallery". MV Times. by Gwyn MacAllister - Aug 14, 2015 While primarily a painter creating heavily detailed work as large as 10 feet by 10 feet, she is also known for sculpture, film, and drawing. Her work has ranged from narrative genre paintings to multi-layered abstractions to realistic portraits to intricate gardens and jungles.

Of the latter work, in 2018 Robert S. Mattison wrote, "Over the past two years, Carol Brown Goldberg has created an extraordinary body of new work: the series Entanglement. On the one hand, these complex and stunningly beautiful paintings and drawings embody Goldberg's profound meditations on the creative process and the origins of art-making. On the other, they personify the artist's intuitive feeling for the biological world, as well as her continuing investigations of the advanced sciences of our age. These large paintings and smaller drawings propose a procreative and fecund connectedness between nature's forces and artistic activity." Mattison is the Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History at Lafayette College.

Carol Brown Goldberg is represented by Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Washington, D.C., and by C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, MD.

Early life and education Carol Brown Goldberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She received a B.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, then moved to Washington, D.C., and further

Her first group exhibition was at the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Options Exhibition for Emerging Artists. This was soon followed by her first solo exhibition at the Osuna Gallery. She remained with Osuna until 2011.

Career Carol Brown Goldberg's work has been described as "intricate works of science and nature, windows into imagined cosmos, explosions of symbols and letters, and wobbly story book scenes," as well as "a carnival of color, form and motion, with each painting revealing different elements depending on where in the room you stand to view it."

Writes Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C., "Carol is deeply and tirelessly engaged in the pursuit of her muse. She is busy painting, sculpting, drawing, printing, photographing, filming, videotaping, and writing. Her art spans the legacy of the Washington Color School and the figurative tradition of American University, where she taught for many years. She has the hand of a Victorian engraver, the wit and pathos of Dada, and the physical gesture of Post-Impressionists and Abstract Expressionists. Throw in some Pop and Op and you still have not satisfactorily described her gifts or her influences, for she is as influenced by physicists, astronomers, neuroscientists, neurobiologists as she is by artists or movements."

In 2018, Carol Brown Goldberg was honored by Moment Magazine as "visionary artist" alongside Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Jane Mayer as part of the Year of the Woman.

She has taught at American University and University of Maryland, was Artist in Residence at Chautauqua Institute, and is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Award.

She has served on the board of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and on the Collector's Committee of the Reading Public Museum.

Exhibitions Brown Goldberg's work has been the subject of multiple solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States as well as in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Monterrey, Mexico and Mexico City.

In Washington, D.C., CBG's solo exhibits span from The Phillips Collection (where she was paired with Henri Matisse), to Addison/Ripley Fine Art and the Washington County Museum of Fine Art. Other solo exhibits include The Frost Art Museum in Miami, Florida, C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, MD, and on Martha's Vineyard, MA, at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, Chilmark Public Library, and Featherstone Center for the Arts.

From 2014 to 2016 her paintings and sculpture were on tour, appearing in the Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, the Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne, Florida, the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, South Dakota, and the Lake Charles Cultural Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In 2021 she was chosen to be one of 12 Mid-Atlantic women abstract artists in the exhibition Fields and Formations, organized by Kristen Hileman.

In addition to the museums and institutions holding her work (listed below), CBG's sculptures are part of permanent outdoor exhibits at Reading Public Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania; Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland; The Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, New York; Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey; in DC at American University; George Washington University, the Kreeger Museum, and Martha's Table; and in Spain at the Medina del Campo Sculpture Park.

Projects Special projects include a work celebrating the Black Student Fund's 25th anniversary in 1989, The Poetry of Justice for Amnesty International's Human Rights Day in 1990, and in 1996, Solar Night for the Bosnian Human Rights Group of Oxford, England to encourage women's entrepreneurship in Bosnia.

Additional notable projects include the 38-foot photographic mural on permanent display at the Katzen Arts Center at American University; Washington, D.C., in 2016, called "The Studio: A Place of Transformation, and a 22 × 6–foot wall mural in collaboration with students, faculty, and staff at Florida International University in 2017.

CBG produced two movies exploring the relationship between art and memory, the 1993 film, Concertina, which received the AMANA Award, and the 2013 eleven-minute film, The Color of Time. See below for recognition.

Connecting art and science In the late 1980s, CBG began examining the relationships between art and science, leading to a 14-part lecture series, "Voices of Our Time," CBG produced and curated in 1990 and 1991 at the Strathmore Hall Arts Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Expanding on this relationship, her work has been exhibited at the American Center for Physics, and other science related institutions. Science is often reflected in her work and are included in her lectures and talks.

In 2012, she and neuroscientist Dr. Partha Mitra, participated in Fré Ilgen's panel discussion, Checkpoint Ilgen #9, in Berlin, Germany, focused on creativity and the brain.

This focus continues to illuminate CBG's work, as art critic and poet Donald Kuspit writes in an International Arts and Artists' volume on the artist. "Goldberg's new abstract paintings are scientifically grounded, indicating that spiritual consciousness is not a groping toward the unknown—blindly mystical as it were—but enlightened cognition of scientifically known reality. If science is mysticism satisfied—what seems beyond comprehension made comprehensible—then Goldberg's abstract paintings show that the seemingly mystical, incomprehensible implicate order is scientifically comprehensible."

Books

2007, "Carol Brown Goldberg Catalog” 2011, "Painting & Sculpture” 2014, "Recent Works” 2018, "Entanglement" 2019, "Mirror Universe: Recent Works by Carol Brown Goldberg”

Awards and honors

2020 "Distinguished Terrapin Award," The University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities; College Park, Maryland 2019 "Transformer 16th Annual Silent Auction," Corcoran School of Art and Design; Washington, D.C. 2019 "Daryl Reich Rubenstein Award," Sidwell Friends School; Washington, D.C. 2018 "Year of the Woman" Gala Honoree, Moment Magazine; Washington, D.C. 2016 Juror's Award, "Making Sense: See, Smell, Hear, Taste, Touch," McLean Project for the Arts; McLean, Virginia 2014 The Color of Time film presented in short film festivals in Hudson Valley, and Warwick, NY as well as ShortD3:F9 Film Selection, YouTube 2013 Third Prize; International Sculpture Competition; Parque de Levante; Murcia, Spain 2013 FilmColumbia 2013; The Color of Time 2012 Best Experimental Film; London Film Awards; The Color of Time 2012 Award of Excellence, La Jolla Short Film Festival; Best Shorts Competition; The Color of Time 2010 Maryland State Arts Council: Individual Artist Award; Baltimore, Maryland 1994 AMANA Award; "Concertina"; video 1987 Outdoor Sculpture Honorariums: City of Rockville; Rockville, MD and Martin Luther King Park; Montgomery County, Maryland 1976 Eugene M. Weisz Memorial Award; Corcoran School of Art; Washington, D.C.

Selected collections

National Museum of Women in the Arts; Washington, D.C. George Washington University; Washington, D.C. American University; Washington, D.C. The Kreeger Museum; Washington, D.C. The Gabarrón Foundation Museum; Valladolid, Spain National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, Maryland Amnesty International; Washington, D.C. University of Maryland; College Park, Maryland New Orleans Museum of Art; New Orleans, Louisiana The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center; Vassar College; Poughkeepsie, New York Fannie Mae Organization; Washington, D.C. Art in Embassy Program DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities; Art Bank 2006, 2009; Washington, D.C. South Dakota Art Museum; Brookings, South Dakota Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida ArtBank; Washington, D.C. Reading Public Museum; Reading, Pennsylvania Academy Art Museum; Easton, Maryland The Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery; Lebanon Valley College; Annville, Pennsylvania Museum of Arts and Sciences; Daytona Beach, Florida Deland Museum of Art; Deland, Florida Foosaner Art Museum (formerly Brevard Art Center and Museum); Melbourne, Florida Museum of the University of Central Florida; Orlando, Florida

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions 2022 "...On the Other Hand"at The Chilmark Library; Washington, D.C. 2021 "...On the Other Hand" Addison/Ripley Fine Art; Washington, D.C. 2020 "Entanglement" C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 2019 "Mirror Universe" Martha's Vineyard Playhouse; Vineyard Haven, Maryland 2019 "Summer Selections" Addison/Ripley Fine Art; Washington, D.C.. 2018 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works" Mirror Universe: Recent Works by Carol Brown GoldbergHagerstown, Maryland 2018 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Extravagant Eden" Chilmark Public Library; Chilmark, Massachusetts 2018 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Entanglement" Featherstone Center for the Arts; Oak Bluffs, Maryland 2018 "Entanglement" Katzen Arts Center at American University; Washington, D.C. 2018 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works" Katzen Arts Center at American University; Washington, D.C. 2017 "Tangled Nature" Frost Art Museum; Miami, Florida 2016 "Extravagant Edens" Addison Ripley Fine Art; Washington, D.C. 2016 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works" Lake Charles Cultural Center, Lake Charles, Louisiana 2015 "Carol Brown Goldberg" A Gallery; Oak Bluffs, Maryland 2015 "One on One: Carol Brown Goldberg/ Henri Matisse" The Phillips Collection: curator, Klaus Ottmann; Washington, D.C. 2015 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works" South Dakota Art Museum; Brookings, South Dakota 2015 "Carol Brown Goldberg: The Color of Time" Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, New York 2014 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works" Vero Beach Museum of Art; Vero Beach, Florida 2014 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Sculpture" Foosaner Art Museum; Melbourne, Florida 2014 "Carol Brown Goldberg: Sculpture" Cosmos Club; Washington, D.C. 2013 "The Circle of Time" Reading Public Museum; Reading, Pennsylvania 2013 "Color in Space" David Richard Gallery; Sante Fe, Nwe Mexico 2012 Art Santa Fe; Osuna Art; Santa Fe, New Mexico 2012 Katzen Art Center at American University; Washington, D.C. 2012 "Flow and Fluctuation" American Center for Physics; College Park, Maryland 2012 "Abstract Realities" The Gabarrón Foundation, New York, New York 2012 "Sculpture and Works on Paper" Luther Brady Gallery, George Washington University; Washington, D.C.;