Dune House

The magnificently lyrical brushwork that Michael Goldberg was to make his own, with its sense of choreography, rhythm and balance, combined with his self-conscious drive for a mastery over space, manifests itself powerfully in Dune House. In Dune House, Goldberg layered across the canvas broad strokes of varying visual speed, from whiplash paint lines to slowly scraped passages displaying an extraordinary gestural fluidity. Planes of colors glide into one another or spectacularly crash into each other, evoking a nuanced orchestration of color and gesture. This unique quality of Goldberg’s paintings, one that conveys not just a powerful sense of the act of painting but also of the personal experience and feeling of laying paint down and making a mark, could only be arrived at by the extraordinary length the artist went to keep every element of his painting immediate, fresh and fluid. Dune House is a representation of an environment that is visually powerful and yet these elements sinuously blend together to avoid distracting the audience away from the most important element of the work: the process.

Michael Goldberg’s works  are in numerous public collections in the United States, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.