The Slutzky Art Gallery at the Merage JCC Presents:
“The Flowers Appear on Earth” Artwork by Carol Goldmark
July 5- August 19, 2010
Artist Reception, Sunday August 8th, 1-4pm
Open to the Community
Carol Goldmark was born in Boston, and has been an artist all her life. She is the daughter of the late Nathan Kredenser, famous New England muralist. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, her MA from Columbia University and completed two years of doctoral studies at Ball State University.
Carol has taught art in both public and private schools and museums to people of all ages, and recently retired from the faculty of Fullerton College, where she taught drawing. She served as Artist in Residence at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology.
She has received several commissions, and has exhibited her drawings and paintings in galleries and museums in Boston, New York, Chicago, Nevada, and throughout California.
In addition to the above biographical information, Carol’s Jewish perspective on art has been influenced by her 41 year marriage to Rabbi Lawrence Goldmark. While attending religious services for over four decades she was especially moved by several passages from the Hebrew scriptures, such as Psalm 103: “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field so he flourisheth…for the wind passes over it and it is gone.” This verse and several other psalms served as an inspirational basis for many of her paintings and drawings.
Carol gives credit for much of the art work in this exhibit to her garden, which contains numerous colorful plants, shrubs and flowers which she herself has planted. She spends many hours drawing among these flowers. She also cuts and brings them to her studio where they are the subject of her newest, highly detailed oil paintings and mixed media drawings.
For more information about the artist visit www.carolgoldmark.com or contact Jennifer Lewis at (949)435-3400 ext 305/JenniferL@jccoc.org