GoldmanArts Studio •thoughtballoon productions•
holeperformancelab
12 sidney Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
978 505 5796
http://www.goldmanarts.com
j@goldmanarts.com
“
a digital renaissance man…”
— Michael Saunders The Boston Globe
“ …every time someone sees one of these pieces it brings a smile
to their face…”
--- Playgrounds for the Mind Newsweek Magazine
Multimedia Artist, Digital imagist, filmmaker, sculptor,
painter, designer, musician
experience highlights:
Founder
of Hole Performance Lab an interdisciplinary collaborative
formed to explore performances combining theater and the projected
media
• Currently
producing XWHAVES at
the Woods Hole Film Festival
• interviewed
Noam Chomsky for Al Jezerra,
•
Producing and directing LAYERS
OF LASAGNA a documentary
of a comedic performer, David Lasagna.
• Designed and supervised the installations of large
scale inflatable sculptures ( as well as all collateral/marketing materials) thoughout the US,
Japan, Korea and Thailand for fifteen years.
•
Designed inflatable costumes as
artworks initially for First Night Boston, then developed the
brand “airwear®” sold
to the largest costume company in the world.
• Built the first interactive inflatable sculpture under an NEA New MEDIA
grant
• Designed and built the urchin lamp an inflatable
lamp currently in the
permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt national Design Museum (Smithsonian
Museums)
• Circumnavigated the earth on an eight-month family trip in an attempt
to educate my children about the world and to generate new sources
of inspiration and artwork
including 10.000 images, 35 hours of digital video, four sketchbooks
forty paintings a massive web site of the 70,000 mile journey.
• Successfully taught and exhibited at numerous institutions, museums throughout
the US and Asia.
selected exhibitions/collections
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
( permanent collection)/NY urchin lamp(inflatable lamp)
Laurie Anderson, Moby Dick, Nerve Bible Tour
(inflatable chair, inflatable projection surfaces)
Elmira College, Elmira, NY cyberflora and other digital images
"
Digital Smart" University of
Bridgeport, CT Digital Paintings
Boston CyberArts Festival, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton MA Digital Paintings
Rockefeller Center/Tishman/Speyer Properties/ New York, NY
40ft window inflatable window washer on Rockefeller Center
Port Discovery Center, Baltimore, MD Airwear: the inflatable artwork of Jon
Goldman
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Suspended Inflatable Urchin
Gallery 128,New York,NY four up Digital and Egg temperaPaintings
Ridge Street Gallery /New York, NY Paintings
Phoenix Park/ (north of) Seoul,
Korea 60’ foot Santa Claus Climbs
into disco.
Kingdom Fine Arts, Boston, MA Egg tempera Paintings
Nickelodeon/Viacom/Orlando FL Various pieces
DisneyWorld/Orlando FL Aladdin’s Genie’s
dancing hands costumes and other large inflatables
The Beal Companies/Boston, MA Laser refraction Transparencies.
Stux Gallery/Boston, MA Summer Invitational Video and Photographs : Flight
of the Woods Hole Squid
Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL Jon Goldman New Work
Chapel Gallery/Newton, MA hysterical
architectures interactive inflatables and documentation (early
Interactive inflatable sculpture)+ large paintings,
early
computer drawings( late 80’s)
Boston Arts Festival Esplanade, Charles River 110-foot inflatable sculpture:
hydra
Trump Taj Mahal / Atlantic City,
NJ Grand Opening: 40ft by 25ft ribbon and 300’ Ribbon
opens when a laser beam hits it.
Parco/Tokyo, Japan 60’ bright yellow Sea Urchin, 15’ Fugu
Fish
Philadelphia
Art Alliance/Philadelphia,
PA 45’ inflatable
sculpture nudibranch
Exploratorium/San Francisco, CA Dreaming seas of Wheat (helium-filled inflatable
sculpture)
Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA Airplay: The art of Jon Goldman
First Night (Numerous Cities) Inflatable Costumes/ Inflatable circus
MIT Museum—The Woods Hole
Inflatable Performance Sculpture
Connecticut College New London, CT Art And Technology Symposium blue field
Brown University, Providence, RI Chrome, Chroma, Chromosomes ( large scale inflatable
performance sculpture joining Departments of Art/ Music and Molecular biology;
Richard Fishman, Art Department Head)
Boston Center for the Arts “Within” red field interactive music –producing
inflatable sculpture( large –scale triggers and sound
loops
Real Art Ways Hartford, CT In
a Lamprey’s Mouth computer –controlled
interactive inflatable sculpture using PIR sensors Amiga computer,
sound system
Teaching
Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Getting your Artwork online: Introductory seminar in Artists’ marketing
Lecturer, Fall 2004
University of Massachusetts/Boston
Adjunct Professor in Art Spring/Fall 1999-2003
Multimedia—taught—Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Final
Cut Pro, sound Edit 16, Photoshop, Quark, Digital Performer (MIDI
sequencing), Painter,
National Theatre Institute
Guest Lecturer 2001 airwear® Inflatable Costumes
Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Adjunct Professor in Art 2000
Multimedia- Intro to Director
Elmira College, Elmira, NY
Guest Lecturer 2000
Rhode Island
School of Design
Industrial Design Seminar with Michael Sand
Guest Lecture 1993
Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts
Concord, MA 2003
Guest Lecture Spiral Journey a multimedia presentation
Design Management Institute
Lecture Into the Aether 1995
Visiting Artist,
Brown University
1987 teaching interdisciplinarily with departments of Music,Sculpture,
Dance and Biology ona Celebrations performance called
Chrome/Chmoma/Chromosomes
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching Assitant
Video Animation 1984
publications(selected):
New York Times Currents by Patricia Leigh Brown : inflatable
nudibranch hits midtown Manhattan
Wall Street Journal 11.2.90 Form+Function by John
Pierson Furniture Blows Up to Create Air of Levity
The Boston Globe Installations Steat Show at
Festival: Christine Temin 9/7/85 “ Jon Goldman’s hydra seems to make time
stand still. It possible to get hooked on watching them…move
as gracefully as giant seaweed that has managed
to escape it watery confines.”
Dallas Morning News
Art New England 6.86 Brown University Green: An
Environmental Performance; by Jan Swearer
Technology Review 7. 84: The Center for Advanced
Visual Studies Where Art Comes of the Wall; Marty
Carlock
South China Post (HK) 6.13.93 Spectrum Sunday “Just when You
thought it was Safe…”
Newsweek 6.12.89 Playgrounds for the Mind “ A prototype for
the “wind Water Wall” always leaves them laughing.” By
Mark Starr
DigitalOutputMagazinehttp://www.digitaloutput.net/back%20edit/edittopic4y.html;
Mining for Digital Gold
How Magazine, 1995 GoldmanArts Inflates Communication;
by Heather L. Allen
Identity Spring 92 Unsigned
New Art Examiner Magazine,
The Boston Phoenix The Boston Arts Festival 9.17.85
Elle Décor, Arbitare,(Italy) Domus ( Italy)
books:
50
Lights Innovations in Design and Materials by Mel Byars
Environmental Graphics ed. by Wayne Hunt
Encyclopaedia of Design:Design in Depth; byDK Holland,
William Drentel, Michael Beirut
The Look of the Century by Michael Tambini in Association
with Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian
Institution
awards
NEA/Rockefeller grant for New Media
WBZ Fund for the Arts Grants Recipient
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant Recipient
Best of Show:Sculpture "Within"BCA; curator:Carl Belz
Industrial Fabrics Association International Design
Excellence
Bronze Award, with IDSA Society for Environmental
Graphic Desig
broadcast:
The Today Show, with inflatable costumes from
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
parade
Lifetime Channel's "Attitudes" segment on Jon
Goldman's designs
ABC-TV's Aloha Parade 1995
other:
Designed
and implemented the Alcott Public school website ( Concord
Mass).
board
member: Member of Societe’ pour Promouvoir
les art Gigantesques (Montreal)
Developing
a Laboratory for the creative combinations for theater and film
to be cetered in Woods Hole ,Mass.
As
active Woods Hole Film Festival Board Member/Advisory Board I
am helping to implement a Filmmakers in the Schools
Program as well as a new category for this fourteen
year
old festival: a children’s
filmmakers division, Former Concord Youth Theatre Board
Member.
education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
M.S. Visual Studies 1985 Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Thesis: Towards Large-scale Environmental Performance Advisors:
Lowry Burgess, Otto Piene
Connecticut College, New London, CT
BA Theatre 1980
Middlesex Polytechnic School for Performing Arts (Middlesex
University)
London, England1978-79 Designed and Directed two shows:
HITTING TOWN by Stephen Poliakoff (Resident Playwright
National Theatre/London)
about incest
during
the Birmingham Bombings; TO STEPHEN LOVE DOROTHY an original
Musical Revue based on the writings and wit of Dorothy
Parker and the songs
and music
of Stephen Sondheim.
National Theatre Institute
\ Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center Waterford, CT` 1979
Studied Set Design under David Hays, Costume Design under
Fred Voelpel, Acting under Estelle Parsons and Morris
Carnovsky,co-directed touring
show Fulltime
Pastime
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Art,Philadelphia, PA 1981-1982
Frudakis Academy of Art Philadelphia, PA 1981-1982Studied
Formal approaches to figurative painting and sculpture;
studied anatomical
approaches
(using cadavers)to figurative and portrait sculpture
as well as mould-making and casting techniques for bronze
casting
References:
Margaret Wagner Hart
Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts
Art Department
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston MA 02125-3393
617-287-5000
margaret.hart@umb.edu
Jennifer Hall
Professor and Coordinator
Graduate Program, Art, Education and New Media
Art Education Department
Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts USA 02115
jenhall@massart.edu
Angelo Fertitta
Dean of Academic Affairs
The Art Institute of Boston
700 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 585-6600
fertitta@aiboston.edu
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown Dance Company
625 West 55th 2nd floor
NY NY 10019
212 582 0040
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Rebecca Davis
r.davis@trishabrowncompany.org
Digital Portfolio available on request or visit
http://www.goldmanarts.com/ and click on
jon Goldman.
