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My work is motivated by the rich tradition of landscape painting and the
variety of ways in which environment is experienced and perceived. I
vacillate between paintings that capture specific moments in time and
space, and paintings that draw comparisons between nature and the ways
in which it is transformed, imitated or translated. Within each painting I
acknowledge both the historical context of the genre and my personal
sense of place and belonging. Gloaming is the period of fading light after
sunset but before dark. I attempt in my recent paintings to capture that
fleeting, often magical transition. Ordinary residential streetlights then
appear as false moons or artificial constellations that illuminate the urban
night.
Marcia Goldenstein is a Professor at the University of Tennessee School of
Art, teaching both Drawing and Painting. She has been a Visiting Artist at
the National Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; Tudor Hall, United
Kingdom; University of Texas, San Antonio; Arizona State University;
University of Indianapolis; and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, TN. as well as at other schools and museums. She has had
numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and
China. Her paintings and mixed media works have strong ties to regional
landscape painting traditions. She is interested in both representing specific
sites and phenomenon as well as the ways in which nature is transformed
and romanticized for domestic consumption. Ms. Goldenstein
received both her BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Nebraska.
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