SCULPTURE
For 20 years, Jon and Nicole Goldman built and designed inflatable sculptures for spectacles with their production company GoldmanArts. The sculptures were seen on buildings throughout the US, Japan, Korea and other Pacific Rim nations. They also appeared on television, in theatrical performances like Laurie Anderson's at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and in/on museums throughout the US.
Dreaming Seas of Wheat, from 1985 was a series of 25 inflatable “stalks” “planted” in a grid of 5×5 each stalk was 25’ tall and about 2 feet in diameter. The piece was installed in Bullough’s Pond in Newton, Massachusetts first then in the lagoon at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Filled with helium, the stalks moved in the wind, imitating in a fanciful way, the opening scene of Werner Herzog’s film “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” which completely captured my imagination with a long single shot of a wheat field moving like the ripples of waves on the sea while the words were subtitled:
“Don’t you hear that horrible screaming all around you? That screaming men call silence.” [from The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser]
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I am creating a series of artworks employing a visual archive depicting the incongruous state of surreality surrounding the concept of ‘truth’. This monumental work is TRUTH LOST AT SEA. When the process of building the 48-foot x 8-foot aluminum version of this sculpture is underway, I will post its progress. I intend it to appear in a variety of waterways like Boston Harbor and The Hudson River, and highways (I-95) as a performative way to artistically represent the dire nature of truth under assault.
This large-scale bright yellow Urchin was a commission for the Japanese company PARCO as part of Jon Goldman’s AIR AQUARIUM series of inflatable sculptures. Ultimately the big yellow urchin was installed in Hibarigaoka, outside of Tokyo on the roof of it brand new vertical mall owned by Art-forward PARCO.
TRUTH LOST AT SEA (MIRROR VERSION) afloat in Martha’s Vineyard Sound (Composited image) TRUTH LOST AT SEA is the largest of the TRUTH PROJECT sculptures in the series. It is to be fabricated from aluminum with an irregular hole pattern on the surface to let the internal LED light be seen from a distance and […]
In a series of inflatable sculpture based on fields called DREAMING SEAS OF WHEAT, Goldman used helium and extruded polyethylene wheat colored tubular forms “planted” in a 5 x 5 arrangement with each “stalk” 25-feet high and anchored with sandbags in two sites: one in San Francisco at the Exploratorium at its former site at the Palace of Legion of Honor, and in Bullough’s Pond in Newton, Massachusetts.
Charles Johnson was one three octogenarians I did video, and sculptural portraits of. He was my mother’s handyman, and had a sever cleft palate, which ironically was my father’s teratological specialty as a geneticist who ran the Center for Cranial Facial Anomalies.
The proliferation of nuclear arms and the disposal process of the radioactive materials is a long term active part of our family’s concerns. I created this artwork when I was an artist-in-residence at the Boston Center for the Arts in the end of the 1980’s. It combines a FIELD with inflatable sculpture (including the emptiness that medium implies) and the deep-seated fear of devastating weaponry The reduction of these weapons has long been an issue and continues to be.
IN A LAMPREY’S MOUTH was a work about technological “blood-sucking.” It was a prescient reflection on the invisible ways technology was beginning to interactively monitor and transform our lives. A lamprey is a bloodsucking parasitic fish with concentric teeth and at the time, as an invasive species was invading the Great Lakes habitat.
Together with Sound Engineer and Fellow Musician Andrew Lipnick, we used pre-recorded sound loops from the BELA LUGOSI cinematic version of DRACULA. When the viewer passed a passive infrared sensor, it would trigger an AMIGA computer to sequence sounds from the film including: “THEY SUCK THE BLOOD FROM THE LIVING!!!” Now, almost forty years later, technological interference in our lives is ubiquitous.
Nudibranch
I designed the 40′ versions of this typically 4-5 centimeter shell-less mollusk as a response to the changing climate, the changing salinity in the ocean and the careless impact of humans on natural environment. The nudibranch as a delicate species is a telltale of the health of its ecosystem. Photo by Robert Rosinsky.
This is the ONLY FUZZY TRUTH I know of. My sculpture, FUZZY TRUTH is intended as a satirical and provocative artwork. My goal is to illustrate how Truth, as a foundational concept of democracy, has increasingly lost its legitimacy via bot-driven algorithms that strive for viral exposure. Welcome to disinfoworld. On October 17, 2005, Stephen […]
I travel a lot . I bring one of many of my small sculptures of the word “TRUTH” with me. It is a cast resin TRUTH, and I often give it to people we meet along the way so I can get an image of them holding onto a truth. Waitresses in Cong, Republic of […]
