Carla Goldberg
Mixed Media Fine Artist
Resin Acrylic Ink Enamel Ground Glass Latex Light Shadow

Jellyfish

I’ve always been fascinated by a Jellyfish's alien-like forms, these abstracts in motion.

About the Images

This new series of Jellyfish Sculptural Drawings are based on this lifelong fascination. These drawings were not copied from photographs or traced. I studied the jellyfish forms and then put the pictures away. I create my creatures from a residual memory. In reality they are an idea of jellyfish. Each is a surprise; no two are ever alike. The piece tells me what it needs — it’s a dialogue between the idea, the piece as it progresses and hand/eye coordination. It may surprise people to learn that there is no erasing. My materials, an oil-based ink impregnates the roughened frosted surface as I draw so if an accident happens, I have to work around it. The resin I use also cannot be erased as it alters the frosted finish permanently. These challenges though, often lead to the best pieces perhaps because I thrive on problem solving. To me the problem becomes an inspiration and invitation to experiment and invent. The work is highly detailed and time-consuming as each “line” in most of the work is actually a string of hundreds of thousands of dots made with a superfine pen the size of the head of a pin. Some of these works take weeks to draw and paint.
 

enamel paint, ink, resin, glass beads on plexiglas

first exhibited in 2014

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Want a Jellyfish? 

You can always commission one.

I can create many size needed.

Contact Carla Goldberg at

goldbergstudioart@gmail.com

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