Carla Goldberg

Chill Wine Bar —173 Main St.

When I was a little kid I thought water came magically from the kitchen sink and collected in swimming pools. I was endlessly fascinated by the cool aqua colors and weird patterns of light dancing on the surface and just below, bouncing off the bottom of the pool walls. I’ve always been drawn to bodies of water and shimmering, moving light. Well that was the essence of water for me growing up in the deserts of Palm Springs, California. I had no idea I would end up living near the Hudson River. The only thing I knew about the Hudson was vague recollections of learning about it in the context of American History. I remember the day I first saw the Hudson and was thunderstruck by how beautiful it was and realized I wanted to live by this real body of water. I found myself obsessed.

Aquamarine is a new mixed media series of paint, ink and resin on plexiglass that plays with the idea of light and shadow, frozen water and thawing, raining and dripping and hinting of summer’s cool aqua ease. These are real and imagined, desert pool infused and Hudson iced. They are a play of water surface, of deep shadow, of light dancing, of memories of reflection and time spent happily spacing out over water.

www.carlagoldberg.com