In his most recent work, Tom Goldenberg uses abstraction to reference an architectural or fictive space. Although a traditional picture-frame is utilised, he envisions the work as an inner proscenium that operates on several planes. There are burial chambers and areas of ritual sacrifice, walls and rooms as well as windows and doorways, areas above and below ground, and deep and shallow spaces for the living and the buried.
The paintings function as elegies or heroic, intimate poems intuiting the history of man and “the structures of everyday life”—the title of a book by Fernand Braudel that is rhythmically poetic in his discussion of how humanity is orchestrated by geography, climate, technology and the routines of daily life. Goldenberg sees his paintings as documents of time passing, the ruins of structures no longer visible and the transitory nature of existence.
1948 Born on Evergreen Park, IL. Lives and works in CT, USA
Education
1970 Receives B.F.A, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2019 Visiting Artist American Academy In Rome
Solo exhibitions
2020 Althuis Hofland Fine Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2017 Re-Institute, Millerton New York
2017 Online Exhibition: Works on Paper
2015 George Billis Gallery, New York, New York
2015 Graduate Center City University of New York, New York, New York
2014 Hartwick College, Foreman Gallery, Oneonta New York
2012 Studio Exhibition, William O’Reilly, LIC, New York
2007 Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut
2006 The Artis Group, Palm Beach, Florida
2004 Zola/Lieberman Gallery Inc. Chicago, Illinois
2004 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, New York
2001 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, New York
1999 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, New York
1995 James Beard Foundation, New York, New York
1990 Marguiles-Tapin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
1984 Hokin-Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas
1983 Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1983 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, New York
1982 Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1982 Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas
1980 Swope Gallery, Venice, California
1979 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York, New York
1978 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York, New York
Group exhibitions
2020 Re-Institute, Together In Isolation, 2019 Jane Eckert Gallery, Kent, Ct.
2017 Re Institute, Millerton, NY
2013 Krannert Art Museum, Annual Fundraiser
2011 Danese Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, New York
2010 Danese Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, New York
2009 Danese Gallery, Works on Paper, New York, New York
2005 Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburg, NY
2004 Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 L’Impronta de Empoli, Empoli, Italy
2000 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Size Matters, Gale Gates Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Old New York Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Henry Street Settlement House, New York/Old New York Gallery
1997 Naples Philharmonic, Naples, Florida
1997 Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas
1996 Freites-Revilla Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1994 Five-Points Gallery, Chatham, New York
1993 Jaffe-Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1992 Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands
1991 Jaffe-Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1990 Gillman-Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1986 Richard Green Gallery, New York, New York
1985 Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1985 Watson Gallery, Houston, Texas
1984 Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1983 Hokin-Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1982 Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1981 Jeffrey Fuller Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Lennsylvania
1981 Hokin Gallery Palm Beach, Florida
1981 Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas
1981 Hokin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1980 Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas
1979 Watson-Willour Gallery, Houston, Texas
1979 William Edward O’Reilly Gallery, New York, New York
1976 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Corporate collections
Arthur Anderson & Company, Chicago, Illinois
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Coopers and Lybrand, Houston, Texas
Galleria Bank, Houston, Texas
Galvaston Houston Corporation, Houston, Texas Gould Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Mesirow Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Quality Steel Corporation, Chicago, Illinois Union Carbide, Chicago, Illinois
Westinghouse Corporation, New York, New York Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York, New York
Museum collections
Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, New York
Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
Bibliography
Cotter, Holland. New York, Arts Journal, April 1978 Leonard, Pam K. Art World, January 1979
Moser, Charlotte. Houston Chronicle, July 1979 Towle, Tony. Art in America, October 1980
Klein, Ellen Lee. Arts Magazine, December 1983
Kramer, Hilton. “Critic’s Notebook: Pictoral Dialogue,” Art and Antiques, December 2001
Kramer, Hilton. “Goldenberg’s Landscapes Look at Earth, Not Sky,” New York Observer, December 10, 2001
Kimball, Roger. “Tom Goldenberg, Art without Apology.” In Art’s Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity. New York: Cybereditions, 2002
“Drawing Room,” Traditional Home (June/July 2002)
Messenger, Robert. “Gallery-Going,” The New York Sun, March 18, 2004
Naves, Mario, “Endless Landscapes,” The New York Observer (March 29, 2004)
Mario Naves, “Bone, Grit and Muscle”: The Paintings of Tom Goldenberg, The Painters Table (April 19,2012)
Kelder, Diane, “Catalogue Essay” Tom Goldenberg, Studio Exhibt, April, 2012
Teaching
Art Students League, Drawing on Collections, New York, New York 2014 “Drawing on Collections” 2001-2014
New School University, New York, New York 2000
New York Studio School Drawing Marathon 2001