Artist Spotlight - Alan Goldberg — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

The Artistic Niche

My journey as a digital artist started as a photographer seeing the world in a different way than most other people. My photographs I was told by some of my fellow photographers were not as perfect as they should be. They looked down at me for not going that extra distance to perfect them. Yet, the world itself is not perfect and so I thought my work was fine.

Flamingo 2024 76 x 101cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

For the longest time my photography was a way for me to capture the world as I saw it since my hand at drawing and painting were somewhat lacking. I started to explore other ways to “finish” my photos as art. In the past I was told that I did have a very interesting way of seeing the world. I used different lenses and point of views including extreme close up and infrared light but that was only I guess part of the learning process.

Red Hibiscus 2024 76 x 101cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

One summer day in 2014 I took a pretty unassuming photo of a “shore bike” (“beach bike” for those not living in the Philadelphia area) with a fisheye lens that was parked along a lifeguard station in Ventnor, New Jersey. After showing a couple of my photographer friends they encouraged me to enter a contest or two. Being the first contest I entered, not much was expected but as fate or luck would have it, I won first place for post editing! This only encouraged me to keep on developing my photography style in turning my work into art.

Mushroom on Blue 2024 76 x 101cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

I entered my first physical show in New Jersey in the early winter of 2014. Since that time I have been part of a number of local shows in New Jersey and have since started to show my work here in Florida. It was shortly after my arrival in Florida that I was contacted about participating in Miami Art Week and for the last three years I have.

Golden Sky and Tree 2023 61 x 91cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

During 2023’s Art Week my work was said to be “refreshingly unique and beautiful” by Publisher John Haffey of Art World News. Along the way since my arrival in Florida I have exhibited my photos in Boca Raton, Miami, The NY Art Expo and Art San Diego.

Arc de Triomphe 2023 41 x 61cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

I have also exhibited my photos in galleries in Palma, Berlin, Zug, Basel, Athens, Paris, Venice and Dubai. I am listed in Marquis Who’s Who and Continental Who’s Who. I have been published in Femme Rebel (March 2020), Millennium (15th Edition) and Vogue (April 2024) Magazines.

Red Sunset 2024 76 x 101cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

My photography and its transformation into digital art has surprised and awed the everyday patrons of art in addition to having drawn the admiration and attention of fellow artists and reviewers. Come and enjoy and explore the many dimensions of my art.

Golden Sax 2024 51 x 76cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

Artist Statement

Like wine as it ages it becomes more refined. When I was a child my parents and school taught me about all kinds of music and art. I was regularly taken to museums to see different kinds of art and noticed architecture as part of art.

Sintra Palace Window 2023 41 x 61cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

As I aged my tastes grew and matured, I hope. I can be working on a photo of a sunrise while listening to Grieg's Morning and yet make it into a piece of modern art. Or I can be working on a model photo and while listening to Rock (Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible" was playing when the photo of the model was being edited) attached.

Ocean Sunrise 2024 76 x 101cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

I leave my mind open to most music but laugh at the idea that "invisible art" or taping a fruit to a wall is real art. I have had a camera in my hand since I was four and bought my first 35mm camera upon graduation from college. My then mentor told me if I want to become good you have to "shoot and shoot and shoot."

Red and Black Rose 2023 61 x 61cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

Being keenly aware of feelings that people have at different times in their life I use my editing to focus on the focus points of the photo that will draw them in and trigger an emotional attachment to it. My diverse audience can view the diversity of my work at my shows at my website.

Blue Iris 2014 51 x 76cm Photo art printed on high gloss aluminum

Being human we all have a common thread. I was taught to treat everyone as I would like to be treated.
I have worked with everyday working people, artists, corporate presidents and "red necks". I say this proudly as they all have that common thread of humanity that is reachable on some level.

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