Joseph Goldyne : paintings, works on paper, sketchbooks / edited by Pam Rino Evans, Anne Pagel, and Diane Roby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldyne, Joseph R., artist.

Tessmer, Jeremy, author.

Contributor:

Pagel, Anne, writer of introduction.

Evans, Pam Rino, editor.

Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goldyne, Joseph R--Exhibitions.

Goldyne, Joseph R.

Painting, American--21st century.

Painting, American.

Waterfalls in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

59 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 x 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Portola Valley, California : Anne Kohs & Associates, Inc., [2019]

Summary:

"Joseph Goldyne's works are an autobiography of sorts. His images include such personal objects as favored books with time-softened corners, well-worn jackets, clothing hanging from hooks or packed into closets, a parrot tulip bending in its crystal vase. Viewers who pause to look at these works might recall the gooey goodness of cherry pie on a hot July day, falling under the trance of Anne Frank's diary or the soft, light, cottony feel of a favorite summer robe. At heart, these works are sweet mementos of life's passage. But Goldyne's interest isn't limited to intimate, closely observed objects. During the last 14 years, he has depicted waterfalls from countless vantage points . . . water plunging unimpeded, cascading over boulders, falling in small rivulets or gushing in such great torrents that only clouds of mist are visible. Sometimes the artist depicts water as it comes in contact with stones, gravel or pools of water. Goldyne is keenly interested in art history and his work s reflect a multiplicity of sources. Joseph Goldyne: Ephemeral Memories includes works from his personal collection by several such consequential artists. A small oil sketch by the renowned 19th century painter of America's mountains, Albert Bierstadt, exemplifies the unfathomable dynamism of nature, even in the hush of sundown. Five images of waterfalls by Japanese artists of the 18th and 19th Century Shijo School reflect a quiet reverence for nature. Their use of the elongated vertical format, their restriction of focus to the waterfall and their minimal application of paint are echoed in Goldyne's approach. In some respects, Goldyne's waterfalls correspond to his images of jackets and shirts. Like the clothing - which has both a visible, public side and an obscured, private side - water and haze veil sand, soil and gravel, the unseen substances that erode the land. In some images, the ceaseless torrents seem to have cleaved the earth into two separate halves. Goldyne freezes these ^imagined moments within time's continuum, each droplet, each particle binding with others to do its part. Goldyne received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and then entered the University of California, San Francisco, where, in 1968, he earned an M.D. Still longing to practice art, he enrolled at Harvard University for a master's degree in art history. Hints of these two sides of Goldyne's nature are visible in the balance of sensibility with technical exactitude that has characterized his life's work."--from Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum exhibition site

Contents:

Preface / Karen and Robert Duncan

Foreword / Trish Bergren

Introduction / Anne Pagel

Joseph Goldyne : waterfalls imagined / Jeremy Tessmer

Biography

Bibliography

Selected public & private collections

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Colophon

Notes:

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition, Joseph Goldyne: Ephemeral Memories, organized by the Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Iowa, June 2 - December 3, 2019"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780578509587

057850958X

OCLC:

1124086047