Pearl Rosen Golden

Biography

Pearl Rosen Golden received her Masters of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. She concentrated on realism with a focus on landscape using various media. Pearl Rosen Golden began exhibiting with her first one-woman show in First Street Gallery 1982. She has had two reviews of solo shows in ARTnews in 1985 and 1990.

Ms. Rosen Golden has been part of several print portfolio editions. She has been included in “The Woman's Portfolio of Faculty and Alumni of Brooklyn College” and “Brooklyn Arts Council Print Portfolio 2000”. She also is in the Goloborotko's Studio 20th Anniversary Edition, which is now in the collection of The Pinacoteca - Museo de São Paulo de Arte Contemporânea, in Sao Paolo, Brazil and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, New York.

Ms. Rosen Golden’s work has received several awards and is in numerous corporate and private collections. She actively exhibits her work. She is a participating artist in the Arc of the Moral Universe: Notebook Project which is touring the country. She is in the process of creating Arc of the Viral Universe A Notebook Project. She resides with her husband Robert Golden in Long Beach, New York and Seattle, Washington both places have influenced her landscape painting 

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Artist statement

The concept of place and the associated meanings in each of these landscapes test reality and question interpretation. In these selections emotion and the overall feel dictate their reality, sense of place, and the story they tell. Each started with a reference to specific places and times. These mainly gouache works established structure and space through observation, but then gave way to envisioning other possible outcomes. I tried reacting to the voice these paintings spoke to in color palette, light, and texture that would ultimately define the place.  “Waiting for the Next Wave,” was created during the Pandemic when waves of disease and protests filled our lives. The form in this painting was repeatedly pushed into characteristic coastal textures. This painting seemed to reflect my somber emotions at the time of the Pandemic. A distant next wave, an overall heaviness expressed in the rocks and muted colors seemed to capture aspects of feelings and events at that time. “Evening on the Hill,” an astonishing view with my car headlights lighting the street and above stood a towering Evergreen against a gray blueish sky. Memories guided the process in this painting. The feel of this work spoke to a dream like image with a light filled moonlight sky. “Alien Landscape” was created early in the Pandemic. Our strange new reality provoked an interest in this scene found in a supermarket parking lot. The worrisome sky and tilting “Sci-Fi” lights and colors suggested to me our real and unreal quality of life.