Charles Goldman “Sidewalking”

Songs For Presidents

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Songs for Presidents presents Sidewalking, a solo exhibition by Charles Goldman. For 20 years, Goldman has been exploring the social and physical architecture of the world that we move through on a daily basis: from moment to moment, space to place and throughout the duration of our lives. The three new projects (Tongue, 100 Found Infinities, and Vibrating Sidewalk) that make up Sidewalking use the urban sidewalk as a springboard to highlight the found, the out-of-scale, and the effects of the city on the body.

As part of the exhibition, GRIDSPACE EDITIONS, in collaboration with Publication Studios, will release a limited edition book entitled 100 Found Infinities, featuring a unique monotype as the cover. Sidewalking’s three projects operate within the constraints of the equation that defines Goldman’s multi-faceted practice: SPACE + TIME + DISTANCE = EXPERIENCE.

Brooklyn-based artist Charles Goldman makes work that extends sculpture into painting, installation, performance, drawing, sound, photography and architecture. Earlier this year he completed a solo exhibition at University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass, Amherst. His work has been exhibited in venues including the Museum of Art and Design, NYC; Peter Blum Gallery, NYC; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA; Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; Artists Space, NYC; The Philip Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR; The Drawing Center, NYC; SculptureCenter, NYC, The Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto, Ontario and Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Goldman has executed public projects for international institutions including Art Caucuses, Tbilisi, Georgia; Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon; Toronto Sculpture Garden, Ontario, and the World Financial Center / Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY. He has participated in numerous residency programs, such as Civitella Ranieri, Art Omi and The MacDowell Colony. In 2011, Goldman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. He is the founder and director of GRIDSPACE in Brooklyn, NY, an artist-run project space. His work is included in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Material Connexion library, among others.