Charles Goldman (born San Francisco, California, 1966) is an American conceptual artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, performance, painting and drawing.Allan, Lois. "Charles Goldman," Sculpture, October 2005.Porges, Maria. "Charles Goldman," Artforum, April, 1996. Retrieved May 3, 2022.Reid, Calvin. "Arnaldo Morales and Charles Goldman at DeChiara/Stewart," Art in America, June, 1999. His practice involves mundane construction materials, household objects, or studio scraps that are refashioned using self-imposed systems that recontextualize experiences of public and private space and time.Baker, Kenneth. "Goldman sets limits in Distance Paintings," San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2022.Dault, Gary Michael. "Eric Glavin and Charles Goldman at Birch Libralato," The Globe and Mail, April 7, 2007.Micchelli, Thomas. "Art, Work and the Workaday," Hyperallergic, July 30, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2022. Writers have described Goldman's art as "deceptively minimal, mischievously abstract"Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. "Between Days," Traywick Gallery. work offering both "slow-burn conceptual humor"Baker, Kenneth. "Feeling for art world's elusive funny bone," San Francisco Chronicle, June 9, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2022. and a practical everyman’s philosophy.

Education and career

Goldman completed a BA in both American Studies and Studio Arts at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1990, and earned an MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago in 1996.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Charles Goldman, Fellows. Retrieved May 2, 2022. In the decade following, he gained recognition for shows at Southern Exposure, White Columns,Cotter, Holland. "Killing Time," The New York Times, September 12, 1997. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Hallwalls,Huntington, Richard. "One Thing or Another," The Buffalo News, April 15, 1998. Bellevue Arts Museum,Updike, Robin. Robin Updike, "'The Self, Absorbed': artists looking inward", Seattle Times, September 14, 1999. and SculptureCenter.Cotter, Holland. "The Paper Show," The New York Times, September 12, 2003. Retrieved May 2, 2022. He has also created public projects for the Socrates Sculpture Park,Smith, Roberta. "Creativity Overhead, Underfoot And Even In the Air," The New York Times, July 27, 2001. Retrieved May 2, 2022. Toronto Sculpture Garden,Dault, Gary Michael. "Charles Goldman at Robert Birch," The Globe and Mail, February 8, 2003. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and Art Caucasus (Tbilisi, Georgia).Wurtz, B. "Charles Goldman by B. Wurtz," Bomb, Summer 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2022. In 2003, the World Financial Center commissioned "Lend Me a Memory", which evoked the losses of the 9/11 attack.Weissenstein, Michael. "Art Exhibits Open Near Ground Zero," San Francisco Chronicle, October 28, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2022.Vogel, Carol. "Spaces for Artists," The New York Times, November 1, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2022.Schambelan, Elizabeth. "New Views," Artforum, December, 2002. Retrieved May 3, 2022.

Goldman is based in Brooklyn, New York and has been a professor at Parsons School of Design since 2007.Parsons School of Design. Charles Goldman, Faculty. Retrieved May 2, 2022.Parsons School of Design. Charles Goldman, Faculty, Fine Arts. Retrieved May 2, 2022.

Work and reception Goldman's art in the late 1990s drew on his experience as a carpenter, making connections between the fine and construction arts, minimalism, modernist architecture and everyday life.Camper, Fred. "Of Poultry, Planks and Post-Its," Chicago Reader, April 17, 1998. Retrieved May 2, 2022.Mumford, Steve. "Charles Goldman," Review, December, 1997,Johnson, Ken. "A Fertile Garden Of Sculptures," The New York Times, August 13, 1999. Retrieved May 2, 2022. His sculpture All of the Walls of My Parents' House (1996) was a six-foot-high, rectangular stack of plasterboard panels of varied length that reconstituted—at scale—the interior walls of his childhood tract home.Baker, Kenneth "Works' titles—including 'Untitled'—get less consideration than they deserve," San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2002. Retrieved May 2, 2022. San Francisco Chronicle critic Kenneth Baker described the massive work as an ostensible reworking of the 1960s stacked minimalism of Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra and Tony Cragg.

His Scrapwood installations (1998–9) consisted of sixteen cardboard boxes containing hundreds of small wood scraps that he configured (without glue or nails) into small cities, each specific to the exhibition site and space.Judge, John. "Charles Goldman: Chicago Project Room, De Chiara/Stewart," Zing Magazine, Summer 1999. Art in America critic Calvin Reid described it as "a delightful, neatly packaged Duchampian joke."

Later work In the 2010s, Goldman has developed a green building material called RE>CRETE> made from pulped newspapers and junk mail, shredded CDs, DVDs and credit cards, cut-up home electronic wires, dryer lint, and ground-up packing foam.Smith, Roberta. "Many Hands in Creative Frenzy," The New York Times, July 4, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2022.Brownlee, John. "11 Exciting New Materials Designers Should Watch," Fast Company, November 14, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2022. The material is an open source project that can be packaged as architectural modules or dry-mix bags; it is included in the Material ConneXion libraries worldwide.Antonini, Marco. "Shred, Mix, Build, Stack (Repeat)," Temporary Art Review, June 24, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2022. Roberta Smith singled out Goldman's RE>CRETE>BLKS in the Museum of Arts and Design's "NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial" (2014) as one of the projects exemplifying critical thinking about innovation and purpose. His exhibition at the University Art Museum at UMass, Amherst (2016) consisted of two identical geometric RE>CRETE> units that formed open, four-chambered building blocks.

From 2010 to 2020, Goldman ran a space out of his Crown Heights storefront called GRIDSPACE, which presented over 80 solo exhibitions, concerts, screenings, and readings during its existence.MacDowell. Charles Goldman, Artists. Retrieved May 2, 2022.GRIDSPACE. About. Retrieved May 20, 2022.

Awards and public collections Goldman was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2011 and has received awards from Artists Space (2002) and New York Foundation for the Arts (2016).Artforum. ["2011 Guggenheim Fellows Announced,"] News. April 7, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2022. He has been awarded artist residencies by MacDowell, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Art Caucasus, and Art Omi.Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Civitella Ranieri 2007, Umbertide, Italy: Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2007.Art Omi. Art Omi 2015, Ghent, NY: Art Omi, 2015. His work belongs to the public collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Center for Book Arts, Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, the Whitney Museum, and private and university collections.Center for Book Arts. 100 Found Infinities/Charles Goldman, Objects. Retrieved May 4, 2022.

References

External links Charles Goldman website Charles Goldman, Guggenheim Fellow Creative Capital, On Our Radar 2019, Charles Goldman, RE>CRETE>I>BEAM GRIDSPACE