Carol Brown Goldberg, Biocentrism Will Fuel Us to Mars, Acrylic on canvas with pulverized glass, 84 x 96 x2 in, Courtesy of the artist, Photograph by Greg Staley.
Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works
September 20, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Since the late 19th century, artists have often compared the use of design and color with the work of modern musical composers, with each form or hue corresponding to musical phrases and tones. Carol Brown Goldberg carries on this “chromesthetic” tradition in her recent paintings, creating, in the words of one critic, “glorious color-saturated paintings that make us feel heavenly.” Her paintings are in some ways geometric and structured, but also cosmic and radiant. Goldberg infuses the surfaces of her canvases with pulverized glass to intensify her colors and give them an almost Venetian look. Unlike the work of earlier artists whose hard-edged geometric compositions seem flat and contained, Goldberg’s paintings gather energy and pull viewers into a limitless “abstract universe.”
Carol Brown Goldberg: Recent Works was organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.
A Tangled Plot: Works by Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson
July 12–October 5, 2025
The Summer 2025 exhibition at the VBMA will showcase 42 paintings and mixed media works by the collaborative duo Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson. Blazejack earned her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University, while Levenson received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Their work spans various media and reflects their shared focus on the environment and their upbringing in Miami, Florida.
Picasso and the Progressive Proof
September 13, 2025–January 4, 2026
Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection explores Pablo Picasso’s late-career printmaking through three key works and their proofs, highlighting his innovative techniques and recurring themes of Spanish heritage, mythology, and European Old Masters.