Tuesday, June 7, 2011

"Sketchbook Processes"

2011

Sketchbooks are hidden, raw and reduced personal places for me to work out content inside my head and operates as a hand-holding companion.  I am currently working in 4 to 5 sketchbooks and 2 writing journals.  The visual diaries are entries and part of a daily practice.  It becomes a part of my everyday routine and structure when studio painting sessions are unavailable to me.  Even when there is a viable space in which to paint and spread out, I rely strongly on sketchbooks and writing journals.  


This type of experiential feedback process is similar to looking at mini clustering processes that some writer's use.  Drawing, writing, composing music evokes a particular aspect of one's life content, and unfolds within it's own contexts.  Distinctive systems, rhythms, style, movement and inner dialogue takes place between you and the work.  




2011

Not all entries are important.  Sometimes a single drawing, or a group of them created on random non-consecutive days signify, affirm, and reaffirm something I am compelled to explore.   I become excited when I review and flick through pages after weeks of playing in the books.  This practice also has an element of showing me what I'm ready to discard,  move beyond an idea, or begs a reason to return to the beginning.


A sketchbook is like a 'pressure release system'.  When struggling with direction and ideas, returning to these diaries help me reconnect and become inspired by my own ideas.  


2011


These particular sketches represent a majority of the January entries which have been showing up consistently throughout the visual diaries.   The cylinder and circular forms.  The impulse to play between circles and grid based content come and go.  


Below are older paintings asking me to return for a closer look evoked by the current sketches.  The separating of elements, even though gestures are small in the sketchbooks, motivates me to explore what is going on.  Looking at these two previous paintings generates an inner dialogue and extends the range and possibilities of the next move -- giving me a subtle satisfactory nod toward consistent content.   
2006



 2006


Sometimes anxiety and self-doubt plagues the artist most often than not.  If you procrastinate and only think about making work, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.  

I work at flowing around every obstacle I encounter as an artist.  This self-explorative process is a large part of my interest in making art and maintaining a healthy mental state of mind.  So, for every mood swing or a shift in execution, keep updating your plan with a process that works for you.  

The artist dreams of works of breadth; but limited
by her personality and the nature of her medium,
limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose,
she often works more narrowly than she's intended...
 __ Eric Maisel


Saturday, June 4, 2011

"Next Exhibition - Maniac 2 - June 11, 2011"







Check out the Cataloque for my next group show - "Maniac 2"







The Brickhouse
2837 36th Street
Sacramento, CA
Opening Reception - June 11, 2011 - 6-9pm





CYNDY GOLDMAN
This work is an arrangement of vertical proportions that explore building and generating a rhythmic color frequency. The surface can be seen or felt. The optical equilibrium is repeated as a group or unit interacting between elements which move from a static to a dynamic field.
I always listen to music while I paint. Color and materials largely contribute to drive the process in the building and reductive placement of form and textures. The compositions strive to create the illusion of light, density and flow.

The current “Groove” paintings references the rhythmic beats in jazz. Through an intuitive organization of line, form and color, the paintings move forwards and backwards similar to rhythmic patterning and feelings in music. Like that of color systems, music creates a response to the cycle of motion that emerges in aligned concurrent rhythmic patterning.
The paintings find resolution through evolving organically while pushing and influencing spacial elements into a corner to work itself out. The process stops when the optical satisfaction lands a visual surface beat without losing the whole. A painting hanging off the obvious or illusive grid.

Cyndy Goldman was born in San Francisco, California. She is a Los Angeles and San Francisco based painter, Educator and Art Therapist. She studied Expressive Art History at JFK University and has facilitated Art Therapy Groups for Interns in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York
www.cyndygoldmanstudio.com




"Roots"
Graphite, Acrylic & Oil
Canvas on Panel
20"x 20"


"Beats"
Graphite, Acrylic & Oil
Canvas on Panel
36"x36"



"Modal Change"
Graphite, Acrylic & Oil
Canvas on Panel
24"x48"