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IEA Member Artist Profile
Eileen Goldenberg
For the past 25 years, Eileen's main focus has been as a ceramic artist. Now Eileen also paints with encaustic. They are
definitely related: surface texture, doors, and bright, rich color. In 2007 Eileen was awarded a grant from the San Francisco
Arts Commission. She used to grant to put together a successful one woman show in San Francisco. Her work has been
represented at Himmelberger Gallery in San Francisco and Conrad Miles Gallery in Tucson.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The Tea House series was inspired by the serenity, and creativity of the Japanese Tea ceremony. Tea is a ritual that gives a
place to share with friends or a quiet moment to ourselves. I strive to express an emotional landscape, using my feelings to
guide the progress. The deep red, magenta, vermilion and warm Indian yellow, depicts feelings guided by my intuition. Each
painting has a "door" (as the teahouse has a door), a transition, an opportunity, a temenos. Some pieces have three doors,
leading the viewer into the painting, and back out again. The mediation of painting thousands of dots of wax begins each
painting. Then after building up many layers of wax, I scrape back the surface, an archeological process of excavation. Sections
of mostly layers of clear wax, utilize the translucency of the material and give a view of underlying layers.
SAMPLES OF ENCAUSTIC ART
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