Rebekah Goldstein

Rebekah Goldstein’s paintings in oil and acrylic are overtly colorful and even conceptually sculptural. With her flat surfaces she is able to render jutting angles, depth, tunnels, twists and turns that allow one’s eye to travel over and into her large-scale canvases. Through this meandering of the eye we can also easily sense the architectural qualities that are somewhat covertly imbued into Goldstein’s shapes and puzzle-like compositions. In addition to her paintings, Goldstein also works in drawing, collage and what she refers to as “fragments,” notably lumpy abstract sculptures that accompany her paintings and bring them into the three-dimensional realm where they seem so ready to venture.

Goldstein received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York as well as attending the Academie Port-Royal painting and Drawing Studio in Paris, France. She was a 2012 Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for he Arts in New Smyrna, Florida and a 2011 Resident at the New York Studio Program in Brooklyn, New York. Goldstein has also been considered for several awards including being a Finalist for the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship in 2014. She has had solo shows at CULTexhibitions in San Francisco and at the Martin Luther King Jr. Gallery at San Jose State University among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Alter Space Gallery and the Wattis Institute in San Francisco.