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Colin Goldberg

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A new studio at Sage Street Mill

A new studio at Sage Street Mill

In July 2026, I moved into Sage Street Mill in North Bennington. The first paintings made there mark a new direction, combining painted marks, printed lines and experiments with spray enamel.

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Ebisu, 2026

Helmholz Fine Art: Live in Person

I showed new paintings in Live in Person at Helmholz Fine Art in Manchester, Vermont. The gallery’s October 3, 2026 opening included Ebisu and other recent paintings on linen.

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Art on Internet Foundation

Art on Internet Foundation

Three of my audiovisual works were acquired by Art on Internet Foundation. Among them was Mesmertron, the first work of mine to sell on the secondary market.

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(Re)Introducing Techspressionism

(Re)Introducing Techspressionism

I first used Techspressionism as an exhibition title in 2011. In this update, I describe how the idea grew into an online community of artists and a series of shared conversations.

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Colin Goldberg, COVID TEST A & C, 2020. India ink, acrylic, and ink on linen. 60 x 36 inches.

COVID PAINTINGS

I based the COVID TEST series on photographs from my family’s drive-through COVID-19 testing experience in March 2020. Making these paintings became a way to address the pandemic in the studio.

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Earth Day - Giant Earth Projections

Giant Earth Projections

I revisited digital photomontages I made for the 25th anniversary of Earth Day in 1995. Archival video shows one of those works projected onto a building at Columbus Circle in New York.

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Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal Interview, 2000

I rediscovered a video interview I conducted with Joseph Nechvatal in Manhattan in 2000. We discussed Viractualism while walking between our studios in the East Village and Lower East Side.

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Greenport Dock #1, 2017. Acrylic and pigment on linen. 32 x 24 inches.

Photoconstruct Series

I contributed paintings from the Photoconstruct series to Hybrid at Alex Ferrone Gallery. Here I describe how I combine my own photographs with painting and digital printing.

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Colin Goldberg - Metagraph Digital Monoprints @ SYS

Alternative Spaces

I showed work at three Long Island venues in summer 2016: Toast Coffeehouse in Patchogue, Southampton Town Recreation Center and The Village Gourmet Cheese Shoppe in Southampton.

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Key West Residency Update

Key West Residency Update

During my 2015 residency at The Studios of Key West, I exhibited works on paper, worked with pen, ink and gouache, and spoke with PBS’s Art Loft about my practice.

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Cave, 1998-2006. Pigment print on paper. 12x13 inches.

Remote Portraiture Project

I developed the Remote Portraiture Project to make portraits through conversations over video calls. The project grew from digital portraits I began making with fellow videoconferencing users in 1998.

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Cipher, 2013. Oil and pigment on canvas. 36x24 inches.

BrooklynWorks 159, Brooklyn NY

I showed work at BrooklynWorks 159 in Brooklyn, with a reception on January 18, 2014. This entry includes Cipher, a 2013 oil and ink painting on canvas.

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Southampton Center, Southampton NY

Southampton Center, Southampton NY

I exhibited four new works on linen at Southampton Center in December 2013. The presentation brought my Photoconstruct paintings together with work by Southampton Artists Association members.

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Pollock-Krasner Grant 2013

Pollock-Krasner Grant 2013

I received a call from Charles C. Bergman telling me that the Pollock-Krasner Foundation had approved my grant proposal. Here I describe what that support meant for my studio practice.

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Memesis, 1999

Metagraphs: Digital Drawings

I began the Metagraph series in 1999 while living in New York’s East Village. These digital drawings use vector-based software, allowing the lines and forms to be printed at different scales.

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Long Island Creative Individuals Grant — typographic journal title card.

Long Island Creative Individuals Grant

I received a 2013 Long Island Creative Individuals Grant, administered by the Huntington Arts Council through NYSCA. The grant supported Improbable Forms, a body of digitally composed work on birch panels.

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Colin Goldberg, New Plastic Shodo #8, 2013. Sumi ink, acrylic and pigment on Kinwashi paper, 12.25 x 17.75

Shodo: Sumi and Inkjet Works on Paper

I began working with sumi ink in 2005 during my MFA studies. Here I describe how Japanese calligraphy, my grandmother’s practice and digital drawing informed the Shodo series.

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Wireframe with Blue Square, 2013. From 'Wireframes' Series

Improbable Forms Interview

I spoke with artist Ellen Wiener on May 5, 2013 about the works in my Improbable Forms exhibition. Our conversation explores the differences between drawing on a screen and making a physical painting.

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The Art Meme — typographic journal title card.

The Art Meme

I wrote this essay on art and memetics in Andrew Hershberger’s graduate critical theory class at Bowling Green State University in 2005. It considers artworks as objects and as carriers of ideas.

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Stanley William Hayter, Third Person (Nostradamus, 1935) (Black/Moorhead 122). Original engraving, 1935.

Stanley William Hayter / Atelier 17

Helen Harrison suggested I look at Stanley William Hayter’s work. I found connections with my own practice in his printmaking, use of automatism and forms that seem both organic and mechanical.

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Desmond Paul Henry - Picture By Drawing Machine 1

Desmond Paul Henry: Digital Art Pioneer

I discovered Desmond Paul Henry’s drawing machines while researching early computer art. His use of mechanical analogue computers led me to consider connections between his drawings and my own work.

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