Andrea Goldsmith Biography

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Andrea Goldsmith lives and paints in Florida after spending many years dividing her time between New Hampshire and her native New York City. It was in New England that she began painting after the birth of her son in 1986. She began  her studies at  the Manchester Institute for the Arts in New Hampshire and through workshops in Nantucket. Goldsmith studied with the artist Wolf Kahn through Art New England in Vermont, and continued her art education at the Museum School in Boston.

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Andrea Goldsmith lived in Miami from January 2013 until moving to Delray Beach in 2019. Goldsmith had a six-week solo exhibition at the Dave and Mary Alper JCC Futernick Family Gallery in Miami from November 2017 through January 2018, where she exhibited  over thirty of her abstract paintings. Shortly after that she participated in an exhibit at One Art Space in Tribeca in New York City, this time showing her paintings of ballroom dancers. In 2017 Goldsmith had a large solo show at Goldcoast Ballroom in Coconut Creek in the Fort Lauderdale area.

 

Goldsmith has participated in numerous art fairs including Satellite Miami during Art Basel Week, and Clio Art Fair in Chelsea during New York City Armory Week. Her painting Renovation was juried into the 2015 Tri-County Biennial at Art Serve in Fort Lauderdale by gallerist Mindy Solomon, and she was a juried associate artist at the Bakehouse in Miami.

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Andrea exhibited her artwork extensively throughout New England during her many years living there and she was active on the board of the New Hampshire Art Association. Andrea Goldsmith received many awards for her paintings and is proud of being awarded 1st prize at the Concord Art Association in Massachusetts by the juror, the late artist Jon Imber.  She was a member of the Nantucket Artist Association and had two solo exhibitions at the Little Gallery.

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Goldsmith moved to Brooklyn full-time in 2007 where she had several different studio spaces and participated in open artist studios including Gowanus Open Studios, Madarts in Park Slope South, NARS  in Sunset Park, and DUMBO Arts Festival. Goldsmith showed her paintings in the Contemporary Art Fair at the Javits Center in New York City in 2011, and at Giacobetti Paul Gallery in DUMBO in Brooklyn. A highlight of that time was having a one-person show at Bliss Bistro in Queens arranged by longtime friend and curator Susan Alyson Stein.

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Andrea Goldsmith continues to explore the long-running abstract theme that is based on her travels in Italy and Spain. She continues her interest in the figure through landscape paintings where the figure is a central element, and through portraits and and paintings of dancers. Goldsmith's ballroom dance paintings are based on her own experiences as a competitor and a spectator. Goldsmith is happy to be settled in her art studio in Delray Beach.

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Andrea Goldsmith Resume

 

RECENT  EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS

2021The Animal Planet: People and Perspectives, Space of Mind, Delray Beach, FL

2021 Square, Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, FL

2020 RGB Online Exhibition curated by Joanne Mattera

2018 Outside In, One Art Space, Tribeca, New York City, NY

November 2017 – January 2018 Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center, Futernick Family Art Gallery, Kendall, FL

2016 Satellite Art Fair, Art Basel Miami

2016 Barcelona International Art Fair, Spain Digital Exhibition

2016 Bakehouse Arts Complex Small Works Show

2016 Clio Art Fair, Armory Week, Chelsea New York City, NY

2015 Fridge Art Fair Art Basel Week, Miami, Florida

 

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Andrea Goldsmith Artist Statement

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My abstract paintings are inspired by my visits to ancient cities and ruins in Italy, Greece, and Spain. In 1992, I spent three weeks on the Greek island of Hydra. I was fascinated by the gates and the heart shapes embedded in the metal. The gates have been the basis for my abstractions. I later took many trips to Italy, where I was further influenced by grids and portals, colorful buildings, and lost cities.

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Architectural elements symbolize the passing of time, barriers to communication, lost love. Fragments of buildings can be seen to represent home or a longing for stability, a struggle against the transient nature of life and relationships.

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I think of my abstract paintings as imaginary landscapes. I do not have a preconceived plan before I start. Color blocks make up the structure of the painting. There is a push and pull between the colors and the size of the color elements.

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Acrylic paint allows the layers underneath to show through like an ancient city, buried and peeking through into the present day. I want to convey this sense of passing of time and yet continuance and optimism through the colors and imagery. I love color and texture and I am always exploring how color and line come together to form the structure of a painting.

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Initially, I have many options how to proceed. The options become limited as the color and space build and the image takes over. For me, this is the “painting hook.” Here is where the painting begins to take on meaning, as the light and color work together to conjure a memory or an emotion.  This might happen very quickly, or a painting might keep calling me back for further exploration.   I’m searching for that juncture where the colors set off a vibration and draw the viewer in.

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