Josh Goldberg, Artist & Poet

09/02/2024

Hello friends,

September's blog, "Notes to My Imaginary Self," is available at https://www.joshgoldbergart.com/blog/196523/notes-to-my-imaginary-self. It is a short selection of "journal entries" of personal yet universal meaning. A top to bottom movement to the center of being pursues communication with elusive aboriginal shadows as well as the necessary angels of radical immanence.

If there are any art or creativity-related topics you'd like my take on, let me know!

Image:
"Writing to Oneself"
Approx. 10"x12"
Collage,pencil

Notes to My Imaginary Self is a short selection of “journal entries” of personal yet universal meaning. A top to bottom movement to the center of being pursues communication with elusive aboriginal shadows as well as the necessary angels of radical immanence. 

08/04/2024

I hope everyone is having a good summer. August's, essay, "An Infinite Context," was just posted to my website: https://www.joshgoldbergart.com/blog/195956/an-infinite-context.

It speaks to a transformational perception that supersedes the tired ego locutions about creativity. Instead, a new taxonomy of the deepest spiritual intention is laid out for the perceived world that can draw us together in the present hour.

I hope you get something out of it.

Let me know if there is a topic you'd like me to explore in a future blog.

There is no painting that does not have its gods and ghosts. Recall the stages and transformations of the work: images that vanish to the nether regions and those that spring transcendental. Images that shout but are devoid of the resonant stillness of a cathedral at dawn. Images that never disappea...

07/06/2024

July's essay is now posted on my website at https://www.joshgoldbergart.com/blog/195432/naming-paintings-truth-in-names. It's about letting your work express and name itself.

Is there anything you'd like me to explore in an upcoming essay? Let me know.

                                      Thich Nhat Hahn, Please Call Me By My True Names, 2004.

02/02/2024

My latest blog post, "The Necessity of Repair," is up on my website. Let me know what you think. https://www.joshgoldbergart.com/blog

01/10/2024

Check out my latest essay on my blog at www.joshgoldbergart.com/blog called The Process-Actualization of "Just Painting."

12/10/2023

I hope you can join me in my next virtual class.

January 23 - February 13 2024, Tuesdays 12.30 - 2 PM (EST) "Dark-Enigma Painting: A Non-Ego Approach to Studio Practice" is a series of four weekly talks that explores the range and profundity, and the potential of adapting the Neo-Daoist philosophy of Dark-Enigma Learning to studio practice.

Learn more or enroll at https://studiolineofsight.com/workshops/p/thepainterspathiijoshgoldberg-m9jal

12/10/2023

I hope you can join me in my next virtual class.

January 23 - February 13 2024, Tuesdays 12.30 - 2 PM (EST) "Dark-Enigma Painting: A Non-Ego Approach to Studio Practice" is a series of four weekly talks that explores the range and profundity, and the potential of adapting the Neo-Daoist philosophy of Dark-Enigma Learning to studio practice.

Learn more or enroll at https://studiolineofsight.com/workshops/p/thepainterspathiijoshgoldberg-m9jal

11/18/2023

Thanks to everyone who made it to Tubac for the opening of my show at . Here are some photos from the evening.

Many thanks !

The show is up through December.

11/17/2023

Previewing the show! Looks great.

11/07/2023

November's essay "Concealment and Configuration: A Meditation" is now available on my website www.JoshGoldbegArt.com under the blog section. I hope you'll check it out.

Also, I hope to see you at the opening reception of my upcoming show at on November 17 from 5-7 PM. The exhibit runs from November 17 - December 31.

10/24/2023

Please join me at the opening reception of my exhibit on Nov.17 from 5-7 pm at the Tubac Center of the Arts. The exhibit, "Cosmologies of the Soul: New Works," will run from Nov.17 - Dec.31, 2023. You can preview the work at:  
https://tubacarts.org/josh-goldberg/. Hope to see you there! Thanks

10/07/2023