800 Pound Gorilla Painting

Jon Goldman is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, and animator whose has exhibited throughout the US and Asia. The primary focus of his early work was large-scale inflatable sculpture that would perform. Since earning his masters from MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Goldman has produced both large-scale spectacles with installations and documentary and animated short-form video including an Emmy-nominated short form animation for broadcasters such as Al Jazeera International, WGBH LAB BOSTON, and the Discovery Channel. He trained with Ricky Leacock at MIT FILM/VIDEO, with Aldo Tambellini, father of video art as well as CAVS Director Otto Piene. His current work focuses on understanding, depicting and building community with THE VILLAGE PORTRAIT PROJECT (an ambitious project to digitally paint 781 people of his village) and APHORISTIC EXTINCTIONS a series of large-scale ink on paper paintings about species and extinctions. GoldmanArts, a collaborative art and Design group he and his wife,Nicole Goldman ran specialised in inflatable sculpture that was interactive. Goldman’s work has been profiled on NPR on The POINT’S LIVING LAB and CREATIVE LIFE. Goldman is a musician, and lives with his wife, Nicole an architectural designer specialising in sustainable design in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.