Paintings, drawings and sculptures by Pamela Goldman
TRESOR TAORMINA
"treasured thinking deeply escapes by necessity out of this world aesthetic wonderland beautiful..." m Karla Wave, artist and gallerist
MOSCOW ON THE SEINE...
Goldman often uses titles that capture the feeling of the moment in which the piece was created. She has an unusual way of poking mischieviously at very sensitive contemporary subjects.
Scientific mind
The equation of land and sea springs forth, and everything fits algebraically into each slot of her inner econometry. All of them an expresso of her inner thought, fitting variables to her delight.
As to her inner scientific inquiry: it all holds and unfolds. Her thoughts become the deepest nuance, they ascend from the pinnacle of her scientific research to her scholarly height. From her well-proven inner knowing she soon reaches a statement of inner confidence, balancing sails of jade, of encouragement and beauty within her.
It is in the ascertainment of a simple lucid fact, a precise knowing that form is the truest function, that both sides of a scholarly debate can equate to the good and to the elegant. The soft purple and emerald turquoise flow from within her mightily. Both colors juxtapose any possible outer, external discernment to ground theory in a silver line of rapid, instant clarity. An elegant strategy.
A review of her is credible. Tongue finds itself untied from knots, myriad twists as mysterious and extensive – soon become lost in her white linen clouds, clouds are constantly being re-written. Words are not cuneiform, they find a cloudy match.
Each note of her wavy harp is simple serendipity, a water of her inner commune of thoughts, a slight dip of snow on the apricot in a vast garden of inquiry, and well-thought out scientific theorem to play to the hypothesis of the weight of the Earth. All for her to engage a heavenly sapphire: a foundation of sky-forming clouds and waters that creates the arc of yet another of her breakthroughs.
Each reference is a cedar light, a story, a theorem, and a fluid guide to her horological craft. It all seems to be her stunning nature, a countertheory founded on her evidence and fact that stems from an inner scientific discipline.
A watch of light onto the wider theorem, one step at a time, that is as mysterious, as much as it is a venus of the worldly peach, spatious and light in its inner knowing - a fruit sending yet another width into vast space beholden to her beauty and fragment to the specificity of her lyre of dress. Truly, an expression of her inner derivative of completion.
Till Bogelsack Curator, Germany
ATHENA AND HER HORSE
LE BROCANTE, PARIS
"With the portraits of Pamela Goldman, I am drawn in by the mysterious woman behind many panes of painted glass. She is not real, but an ideal arising from Goldman's subconscious. She is asking to be known and Pamela's art practice is a work of devotion to this mysterious woman. In this labor of love, I sense a deep longing to break free from flaws, from suffering, and to fall into the arms of this ideal, to be cradled, and to be made whole." Josh Green Faculty 92NY
LUCIA
"Accessing the three classical realities of existence: the inner, the outer and the sublime, Pamela Goldman presents us with a new world without precedent or peer."
Gerald Feldman Author, photographer, NYC
CLOWN 2025
"Pamela J.Goldman art shows us a world of deep refinement and elegance; every detail is treated with extreme care, every color chosen with devotion. Her beautiful women recall the preciousness of oriental headdresses and costumes. From her artworks, painting and sculptures, the love for the refinement typical of the Art Nouveau of the last century shines through."
Viviana Natalini Artist, Italy
NOBLESSE:
LE CIRQUE
Goldman loves to infuse magic into ordinary objects that she collects and assembles in newly fashioned and imaginative ways. 'It has to do with figuring puzzles out. There is freedom on the other side of this intrigue,' she states.
"jE pENSAIS' punctures The 4th wall"
Playfully Pamela combines elements to break all the rules. These are exhilarating pokes at tradition
Pamela Goldman studied art at Columbia University, Yale University, University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence combined programs in Florence, Rome and Venice, Italy , and The Art Students League. She also spent time assisting Julian Schnabel at his Bridgehampton studio and home. Working at several prestigious museums in NYC, The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum, The Jewish Museum in the permanent collection as well as The Prints, Architectural Drawings and Vintage Photographs at The New York Historical Society are just some of the experiences that Pamela draws upon in her artistic output.
LADY D NYC
drawings with expertise
reviews
Pamela J. Goldman is a painter very original in the US artistic panorama. She is following a very personal path in multimedia production, mixing drawing, assembled objects and painting. If lightness is the stylistic signature of her assembled glass objects, the Renaissance touch is clearly shown in the smooth and sinuous lines of her magical portraits. Last but not least, her paintings: Goldman seems to have learnt the best lesson of August Klimt with a touch of non-conventional orientalism.
Goldman is not only a different brush or pencil, she is a unique voice in an international artistic panorama too often homologated.
Simona Maria Frigerio,
Art critic and historian
Review:
I'm not here
Pamela Goldman's portraits allow us to search within ourselves for lost words and the inner calligraphy of a Phoenician alphabet. A simple, joyous essence woven like silk, celebrating like a sage who has found the udumbara flower. Portraits are like leaves stretching out-beautiful eyes across an ocean. A single whisper, it does not need words. It is a simple, playful expression, but of care and good nature. In the glowing glass of Pamela's sculptures the eyes of the ocean catch a glimpse of art unfolding. In Pamela Goldman's art, eyes are a window, a window to the world. Almost as if we would be sailing across sea, our eyes can stretch far out into the distance and gather buds of wisdom. We see the ocean, freshness of the breeze and the open expanse. We see the wide open space with our own eyes or we may look deep into her eyes. We want to be other than here. Pamela Goldman's painting 'I am Not Here / Other Than Here' allows us to reimagine ourselves, to see ourselves in a new light and recreate ourselves, almost as if we would be adding branches to a tree to capture more light. Yet, there is also fresh discernment and understanding of our own journey. In Pamela Goldman's art, 'I am Not Here' allows us connect the wisdom in the eyes of 'I am Not Here' to the greater reality, and the journey is a bridge to get there, perhaps symbolic of inner growth and fortitude. Pamela Goldman captures beautifully the emotional essence of the Mona Lisa. Being here, yet, not being here. Or being between two states, perhaps even two states of mind. Maybe at times, being not here is a way to find ourselves. Also when we look deep into her portraits eyes, we find ourselves not being present in the here, which itself opens us up to creative flow and seeing and discovering what lay / is hidden (not here). We take something that was not perceived, from the unconscious into the perception, into the conscious and into awareness. Sculptures like 'Indochine' tell a joyous story in Pamela Goldman's art. A beautiful blue turquoise may reflect the vastness of the ocean’s surface. The blue turquoise stretches our imagination as far as our eyes can see. The depth of the ocean within the sculpture itself. Like waves, flowing, gentle and elegant. Other portraits play on royal mystery, grace and contemplation. The blue of the ocean flows gently. We meditate, a wave approaches. Above the deep blue sky white clouds glide peacefully (across) the canopy. The (inner) ocean (that) engages the shore, interconnects and spreads inner contemplation. There is a fresh day and we meditate by the sea, as we take in the magic of the painting like the horizon where sky and sea ajoin, enjoying (the) reflection(s) of (another) daybreak. Pamela Goldman's art juxtaposes geographic imagery with a soft, lively atmosphere. Soft blue, sky blue, speaks to the soul and curiosity: What is being discussed in the Winter Palace and can we be part of the conversation? A beautiful poise, and soft colors with sky blue create a sense of harmony between her (the women in the portraits) and her interlocutor(s), they communicate flow.
Till Bogelsack
Chief Curator, Museum Mile Contemporary
"Creating is an act of love. As in love, you must take chances...." Pamela 6/13/25
SUBTLE ENJOYMENT
IN SECRET
SO MUCH LEFT UNSAID... A CHANCE TO DREAM, THE SPACE TO IMAGINE, A FEELING WHICH SPEAKS VOLUMES.
imperfection, a balance between careful and abandoned WRECKLESSness.
DETAILS COMBINED WITH GREAT CARE, YET CULMINATING IN WILD ABANDON.
NYC MIDNIGHT 2025
Reconfiguring the ordinary
iN HER STUDIO
2023
Through the Layers
a technique with which she has experimented in her studies with artist/ writer/ Gerald Feldman
layers of art are switched around in many orders and in many subsequent versions to create a final compostion while keeping the underlying drawing fully intact.
"I CAME, I SAW, I CONCURRED"
PAMELA GOLDMAN 1986
Internationally acclaimed artist, Pamela Goldman is based in NYC with representation in Germany, Italy and The United States.