Iris Goldstein

Email: irisgoldstein@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.irisgoldstein.net

I studied sculpture with Cosmo Campoli at the Contemporary Arts Workshop in Chicago. I have an A.B. from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, where I also studied with Leonard Baskin. In addition, I have an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1990, I have been a member of the ARC Cooperative Gallery in Chicago.

Interview

Iris Goldstein’s ArtStyle Blog interview by Mirjana Ugrinov was published in November, 2007.

Gallery / Exhibitions

Recent / Upcoming Exhibitions:
Figures and Ground, sculpture, mixed media. One-person show. ARC Gallery, 832 W. Superior Street, #204, Chicago. Phone: 312-733-2787. Email: info@arcgallery.com. Website: www.arcgallery.org. Exhibition through May 3, 2008.

Chicago Expression: The 5 Artists’ Project, Ossia Fine Arts Space, Chicago, August, 2008

Selected Exhibitions:
5'by 2', members’exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2007
Muses and Musings, one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2006
Open Studios, exchange exhibit, La Genie de la Bastille, Paris, France, 2005
W.A.S.P.S.-Chicago Exchange, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005
Poetic Dialogue, Tallgrass Gallery, group show, Park Forest, Illinois, 2005
Poetic Dialogue, group show, University of West Florida, 2005
EastWest, group show, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China, catalogue, 2005
Home, group show Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, 2005
Maine Meditations, one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2004
Small Objects, group show TZ Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
Poetic Dialogue, group project ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, catalogue, 2004
30th Anniversary Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Exhibition co-chair and installer of the work, editor of the exhibition catalogue, 2004
Variations, one-person show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2003
Faces, A Raw Space Installation, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2003
A Capitol Commute, Gallery 10, Washington, D.C., 2002
ARC in Japan, Matsugoaka Gallery, Haguro-Machi, Japan, Atelier Gym Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
Wer Weiss Wozo es Gut Ist?, GEDOK Gallery, Hamburg Germany, catalogue, 2001
Art of the Third Coast, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2001
Art of the Third Coast, Amos Eno Gallery, New York City, 2001
Voyages, Group Show, Inside Art, Chicago, 2000
Chicago-Bremen, Atelierhof Kulturhandwerke.V., Bremen, Germany, 2000

Artist Statement

My relief sculptures, made of plaster and aluminum screening, create presences that 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.

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