Image: Colin Goldberg’s 6×8 foot augmented-reality digital monoprint on vinyl Kneeling Icon, the first AR/on-chain artwork in the Hearst Corporation collection, pictured here in Hearst Tower on 57th Street in NYC, where it is permanently installed.

Bronx-born artist Colin Goldberg’s work explores the relationship between technology and personal expression. He is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient whose studio practice bridges multiple disciplines, notably painting and  digital media.  Goldberg invented the term “Techspressionism” in 2011 to describe his technology-fueled paintings. Since then, Techspressionism has developed into an international movement of artists from over 45 countries. It has also become a widely used hashtag on social media, with over 80K Instagram posts by artists around the globe using the hashtag #techspressionism since 2020. Defined as “an artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience,” Techspressionism has been described as “Expressionism for the 21st Century.”