Motion Paintings
Motion Paintings extend the Wireframe series into animation, using generative tools to set images of the physical paintings into motion.
About this series
Begun in 2004, the Wireframe series developed from Goldberg’s Metagraph digital drawings. Gestural lines were rotated in three-dimensional space to form structures that recall architectural and engineering drawings. Printed onto painted surfaces, these digital structures meet the textures and gestures of acrylic, oil and ink on canvas or linen. This exchange between digital construction and physical painting helped shape the approach Goldberg named Techspressionism in 2011. For Motion Paintings, generative tools were used to animate images of selected finished paintings, extending their lines, forms and surfaces through time. The painted work provides the starting image for its moving counterpart. Scan the QR code specific to a painting with a mobile device to open the animation in the mobile browser. The video above previews that experience.
Motion Paintings are paintings on linen in which multiple layers of hand painting and digital drawing meet, the drawing printed directly onto the painted surface. Each carries an augmented reality layer: viewers scan the QR code beside the painting, hold up their phone, and the work comes alive in motion on the wall. No app is needed.