Brown Foundation Gallery
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Michael Golden
0 – Connected
Michael Golden’s exhibition, 0 - Connected, includes collages created from images he has collected over the past 30 years of his studio practice. After retiring from teaching in 2016, Golden began sorting through his archive of images. The resulting works document his life experiences, personal associations, and play with visual metaphor through imagery pulled from science, nature and geometry. Golden’s life experiences of coming out, his varied medical history, travels, and teaching are clipped and juxtaposed with representations of forgiveness, oneness, family, and gender identity. Golden’s perception of space is altered by blindness in his right eye, with these collages offering viewers insight into his two-dimensional world.
Michael Golden was born in Chicago, IL and lives and works in Houston, TX. He received his MFA in printmaking and drawing from the University of Illinois, Champaign in 1989. For 25 years he taught in the Art Department at Houston Community College-Central, where he served as Department Chair and Gallery Director. His work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including “The Abstract Impulse” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Rudolf Blume Fine Art/Art Scan Gallery, Houston; Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL; Project Row Houses, Houston; and Artists Space and the Painting Center, New York. Golden’s work is in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN; University of California, Palo Alto; and University of Texas at Austin, as well as corporate and private collections. He has received Individual Artists Grants from HAA for both his own work and for curating.
