Audrey Goldman

Artist Statement

Artist Statement
When your family are artists, painter, textile designers, and graphic engineer all this energy certainly rubs off. I leaned towards creative classes all thru my school years. Got my BA in art education, taught for a while, left added an MSW and worked as a therapist for years. But that yearning to use my hands never left, and at the ripe age of 40 with a mallet and chisel in hand began or actually returned to what I love. Sculpting. Years of taking classes, learning how to approach a stone, techniques all lead to my certain style. Whether it was faces, bodies, nature or just plain abstract shapes all my work was distinct, reflecting what I saw around me, and in my travels. The simplest leaf, or nude in a museum or gallery could spark an idea and lead me back to my stones. Stone carving teaches patience, humility, not rushing the process and mistakes matter and made me understand failure can lead to breathtaking surprises. My stone sculptures have been in juried art shows, and people are usually taken with the magnitude of what it takes to carve such raw material into abstract and realistic forms.
But it was clay and ceramics back in high school that actually started my sculpting career, and eventually I came back to. Throwing on the wheel helped my technique, but hand building was the sweet spot. Tall coil built vessels, slab construction, nudes, Raku, underglazes, sgraffito carving details, high fire glazes, and chemical stains all added to my work. I create one of a kind sculptures, each reflecting a moment in time that sparked me. Lucky to have traveled the world opened my eyes to generations of museum level art and small craft makers. My clay work is divided between vessels, human forms always with an abstract twist. Sculpting, forming a work that reflects how I feel, what I experience and how it interacts with the space it sits in, the ultimate goal as an artist.