About
Painter and sculptor
Anat Eshed Goldberg
Having graduated Carnegie-Mellon University with a degree in fine arts, Anat Eshed Goldberg paints and sculpts at her home-based studio, nestled in a lush hillside near Jerusalem.
Her work is infused with her love of nature. Some of her paintings and sculptures exhibit the influence of her extensive travel, including trekking, in East Asia and Africa.
Viewing her oil paintings, one is drawn into an alternate universe, both magical and personal. This world of images, its atmosphere and story are an enigma, which Anat has neither need nor desire to understand or explain.
In her sculpture, Anat also started creating personal, miniature worlds, using a variety of materials: polyester, plaster, metal, and wood. Years into this work, she switched to sculpting in wood with mallet and hammer, work that demands persistence, day after day. "…There is something fascinating and meditative about manual work in wood. The process is gradual and requires forethought and planning of each strike of the chisel…"
The salt sculptures represent a prolonged, 22-year project (since the year 2000), which began with walks along the shore of the Dead Sea. Here, Anat’s connection with nature is at its maximum: entering the sea, immersing the sculptures’ skeletons, and waiting in anticipation of the sea’s creative formation of the salt crystals. "…What an experience it is to work with nature, to explore the crystallization process, and to try and comprehend the vicissitudes of the sea and the seasons…"
The secret of the works’ contents, both the visible and the unseen, is left by Anat to the viewer.
Curriculum Vitae
1946 - Born in Rehovot, Israel.
1965-69 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. B.F.A., Major: Painting.
1969 - present. Painting - oils, water colors, pastels. Sculpting - clay, wax, polyester and plaster casts, wood and stone carvings. Holograms - sculpturing for holograms.
1970-72 Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Outstanding student in Theater Dept.
1970 - present. Teaching in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and the University of Jerusalem.
1973 Worked on props for "Faust", at the Habima National Theater.
1973 Worked on props for the Summer Shakespeare Festival, New York.
1983 Mask making workshop (Paul Stein, Paris), held at the Israel Museum.
1983 Sculpturing for Holography - Weizmann Institute, Rehovot.
1984 Coordinator of "Museum Plus", a 3 curriculum of the Israel Museum.
Exhibitions
Three group shows in the "Artists’ House", Jerusalem.
1981 Exhibition in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, of my adult students’ works.
1982 One woman show in Old Jaffa Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1983 One woman show in the "Artists’ House", Jerusalem.
1984 Group show - the Philadelphia Art Show Adam Mark hotel - Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1986 Two - person show - Sara Gallery, Talbie, Jerusalem.
1986 Group show - Sara Gallery, Talbie, Jerusalem.
1988 Environment for the "Comics" exhibition, Israel Museum’s Youth Wing.
1990 Environment for "Wild to Domestic" exhibition, Israel Museum’s Youth Wing.
1992 Outdoor Sculpture for a kindergarten in Moza Illit, Jerusalem.
1993 Installation for "a home for a man" -"Landscape" exhibit, Israel Museum Youth Wing.
1994 One - woman Show - the Ein Harod Museum.
1995 Sculpture ordered for the "Mirror" exhibition, Israel Museum’s Youth Wing.
1997 Sculpture ordered for the "Box" exhibition, Israel Museum’s Youth Wing.
1998 One-woman Show – in the "Artists’ House", Jerusalem.
1998 Sculpture ordered for the "Earth" exhibition, Israel Museum’s Youth Wing.
2001 – present. Dead Sea Project. Salt Sculptures commissioned by Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem.
2009 Salt sculpture installation in the visitor center of AHAVA Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem.
2011 One woman show - "An Image in Transition", Bar David Museum Kibbutz Baraam.
Books
"No Frames" - Methods of Teaching Painting and Drawing, published in Hebrew, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1987.
Anat Eshed Goldberg - Retrospective catalogue of works, 2011.
Awards
Carnegie Mellon Scholarship, 1965-1969.
Israel Museum Grant for Studies, 1984.
The Jerusalem Foundation - Commissioned Sculptures for Holography Project in the Jewish Quarter Archaeological site, 1986-1987.