Sculpture
For 20 years, Jon and Nicole Goldman built inflatable sculptures with their production company, GoldmanArts. The sculptures were seen on buildings throughout the US, Japan, Korea and other Pacific Rim nations. They also appeared on television, in theatrical performances (Laurie Anderson's,e.g.) and in/on museums around the US.
The hydra was created for the BOSTON ARTS FESTIVAL on the Charles River Lagoon. Like the story of Heracles, cauterizing the hydra, Goldman would pole out on a raft, (Huck Finn Style) into the middle of the Lagoon with tanks of helium, filling up each “head” of the hydra and cauterizing the end. The Dichromate print is but one of series of gum prints that accompanied the project.
![Hydra [AI]](https://goldman.hamwebs.com/wp-content/uploads/pseudohydra-with-pink-bioluminescence.jpg)
This large-scale bright yellow Urchin was a commission for the Japanese company PARCO as part of Jon Goldman’s AIR AQUARIUM series of inflatable sculptures. Ultimately the big yellow urchin was installed in Hibarigaoka, outside of Tokyo on the roof of it brand new vertical mall owned by Art-forward PARCO.
The proliferation of nuclear arms and the disposal process of the radioactive materials is a long term active part of our family’s concerns. I created this artwork when I was an artist-in-residence at the Boston Center for the Arts in the end of the 1980’s. It combines a FIELD with inflatable sculpture (including the emptiness that medium implies) and the deep-seated fear of devastating weaponry The reduction of these weapons has long been an issue and continues to be.
IN A LAMPREY’S MOUTH was a work about technological “blood-sucking.” It was a prescient reflection on the invisible ways technology was beginning to interactively monitor and transform our lives. A lamprey is a bloodsucking parasitic fish with concentric teeth and at the time, as an invasive species was invading the Great Lakes habitat.
Together with Sound Engineer and Fellow Musician Andrew Lipnick, we used pre-recorded sound loops from the BELA LUGOSI cinematic version of DRACULA. When the viewer passed a passive infrared sensor, it would trigger an AMIGA computer to sequence sounds from the film including: “THEY SUCK THE BLOOD FROM THE LIVING!!!” Now, almost forty years later, technological interference in our lives is ubiquitous.
Nudibranch
I designed the 40′ versions of this typically 4-5 centimeter shell-less mollusk as a response to the changing climate, the changing salinity in the ocean and the careless impact of humans on natural environment. The nudibranch as a delicate species is a telltale of the health of its ecosystem. Photo by Robert Rosinsky.
