ABSTRACT AND IN COLOR
IRIS GOLDSTEIN
Art About Abstraction

 Site Map of Iris Goldstein's abstract relief sculpture
Maine
Variations

Faces
Voyages
Quest

Reflections

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 Member ARC Gallery in Chicago


My relief sculptures, made of plaster and aluminum screening, create presences which explore the connections between surface form and an emotive exploration of color. The repeated patterns of the forms, which are geometric but also sensual, play against the subtle shiftings of the color.

The search is for equilibrium, a balance of formal relationships. The surfaces are rendered to appeal to the sense of touch. Repetitions and change are used to examine the power of texture and color to add to one's sense of well being or disquiet.

Abstraction enlarges one's ability to bring to an artwork personal reactions and experience, and I hope for an enlargement of my ideas and experiences through the reactions of others to my work.


 
Education:
Studied sculpture with Cosmo Campoli at the Contemporary Arts
Workshop, Chicago, Illinois.
M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
A.B. Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Studied with Leonard Baskin
Professional Activities:
1990-Present Member, ARC Cooperative Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1979- 87 Taught children's film making classes after school, University
of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Chicago, Illinois.

Selected Exhibitions:
2003 "Articulations", 2-person show, Atelier Art International, NYC.
2003 "Variations", one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2003 "30th Anniversary Exhibition" ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, exhibition co-chair and installer of the work, editor of the exhibition catalog.
2003 "Faces, A Raw Space Installation", ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 "A Capitol Commute" Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.
2001 "ARC in Japan", Matsugoaka Gallery, Haguro-Machi, Japan,
Atelier Gym Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 "Wer Weiss Wozo es Gut Ist?" GEDOK Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2001 "Art of the Third Coast" Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001 "Art of the Third Coast" Amos Eno Gallery, New York City
2000 "Voyages", Group Show, Inside Art, Chicago
2000 "Chicago-Bremen", Atelierhof Kulturhandwerke.V., Bremen, Germany
1999 "Journeys", one person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago
1998 "ARC in Australia" Sidney College of the Arts, Sidney, Australia
1998 "150th Anniversary Exhibition", KAM Isaiah Israel, Chicago
1997 "Imaginary Structures" , one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago.
1997 "The Exchange" Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1996 "Abstract and in Color" Back to Back II Group Show, ARC Gallery
Invitational Space, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1996 "Abstract and in Color" Back to Back I, Group Show, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago Illinois.
1996 Members Show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1996 Group Show, 750 Gallery, Sacramento, California.
1995 Group Show, Chidlaw Gallery , Art Academy of Cincinnati, Oh.
1995 "Chromatic Reflections", one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1994 Group Show University of Wisconsin Art Gallery, Madison, WI.
1993 "Suspended Motion", one-person show ARC Gallery, Chicago.
1993 Group Show, Ohio University-Chillicothe, Chillicothe, Oh.
1993 Group Show, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1993 Group Show Harper College, Palatine, Illinois.
1992 "Aggregation ", Excalibur Club, Chicago, Illinois.
1992 "Figures and Ground", one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago.
1991 Group Show, Freeport Art Museum, Freeport Illinois.
1990 "The Lazer Show", 1800 Clybourn, Chicago, Illinois..
1987 "Dramatis Personae", Invitational Space, ARC Gallery Chicago.
1985 Chicago Art Network, Chicago, Illinois.
1885 "Independent Vision", Group Show, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois: catalogue.
1985 One-person show, Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL.
1979 "A Day in The Life, 24 Hours in the Life of a Creative
Woman", ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; catalogue.








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