With an eye for capturing beauty in details, Gary Goldberg photographs what many of us simply pass by, the elegance of erosion over time. Gary has been photographing the textured landscapes created by the cracks and chipped edges of the walls around Oaxaca for years. Gary first visited Oaxaca 20 years ago and has been building his relationship with the landscape and city ever since.
We are excited to announce that we too are now beginning a partnership with Gary Goldberg, as he becomes our newest artist at Hecho Gallery.
Gary Goldberg, Professor Emeritus of Art at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas recently retired from teaching after 37 years. He received an MFA from the University of Nebraska in 1979. He has been the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Goldberg’s photographs have been included in over one hundred exhibitions and publications throughout his career. Gary recently moved back to his home state and is living and working in Berkeley, California.
Over the past 7 years he has been transforming his photographs into textiles with the help of the Taller de Afelpado team at the Centro de las Artes de San Augustin. These are the works he is bringing to Hecho Gallery. The Taller de Afelpado team uses all natural dyes and traditional methods to transform the photographs he takes of the walls in in Oaxaca into large gorgeous felted wool textiles.
“It takes three people three weeks to make one,” he said. “I work with them for the first week on each textile to go over color, what to include and exclude and how it is to be executed.”
I see the walls as universal symbols, circles and triangles and more shape-oriented, but also as abstracted landscapes echoing Mexican mythology with the underworld.”
Goldberg acknowledges his collaboration with Taller de Afelpado not only in statements about the work, but the workshop’s name and a group photograph of the artisans is mounted to the back of each piece. This collaboration to create these beautiful works of art is one that is filled with gratitude and admiration.
The opening is Friday, January 6, 5-7pm. Gary will give an artist talk at 2pm the following day, January 7.
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