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SINGULARITY | Materialized from Oct. 7
A solo exhibition of works on paper by Kim Goldberg
Eisenberg Gallery at the J, Omaha, NE
Exhibit & Artist Statement, March 2025
Singularity materialized following the events of October 7. That morning, those attending the NOVA Music Festival looked up to see what they thought was a fireworks display. They soon learned they weren’t seeing fireworks but rockets launched by Hamas terrorists.
Singularity represents the beauty of the NOVA participants and the horror on the ground that day. It honors the lives of those who were taken, the deep mourning of their families, and the trauma experienced by survivors. It processes the emotion of that day and asks: What do we see when the world turns upside down?
An experimental and conceptual artist, Kim explores the spaces between the corporeal and the abstract. She pairs tangible materials (paper, water, ink, and watercolor) with the intangible (time, instinct, and introspection) to create unique visual expressions.
Process is as much a part of the work’s meaning as is the final product. Beginning with a clear mind and undetermined end, Kim selects paper, brushes, and colors, then follows her intuition. The amorphous materials require her to flow within the moment, to stay in her physical body while freeing her mind to discover images as she creates them. As Kim works, symbols and rhythms emerge. In time the end presents itself.
Kim’s method emphasizes the beauty of imperfection and letting go. Her work evokes the spaces between choice and chance, the material and spiritual, the body and mind, the conscious and subconscious.
Kim had the honor of leading art workshops with NOVA Festival survivors and their families in Israel last summer.
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SINGULARITY / Title conceived and explanation written by Shelley Mika
A nova is a star that shows a sudden, dramatic increase in brightness. Black holes are created when stars collapse in on themselves at the end of their lives and their bright light goes out. Singularity is a point or region where space and time become distorted or break down. It is a point at which a function reaches infinity, particularly when matter is infinitely curved, as at the center of a black hole.
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Bio
1971, Kansas City, MO / lives in Omaha, NE
Kim Goldberg, artist and graphic designer, is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute with a focus in sculpture and new genres art. She has 28+ years of professional work as a Senior Design Consultant at Gallup, a Senior Art Director at Ervin & Smith Digital Marketing Agency, and has run her own design business since 2009.
Kim has been an active volunteer with Partnership2Gether, Western Galilee since 2006, founding and contributing to numerous art programs to connect global creatives including the Artist in Residency Exchange program in which she was a five-time participant. Her work is in private collections in the U.S., Europe and Israel. She exhibited work in Abstract Sensitivity a group show in 2022 at the Art Salon Contemporary, Budapest. In 2022-23 she had solo exhibits at the Eisenberg Gallery at the J and Mainframe Studios in Des Moines, IA. During the summer of 2024 she facilitated art workshops titled ‘Free Flow—Healing Art Workshops,’ in the Galilee Medical Center, with Western Galilee community members and the Nova Music Festival Community. In December 2024, she had a private solo exhibit displaying works from her most recent series.
This year she has solo exhibits scheduled in Omaha, NE (March), in Canton, OH at Strauss Studios (May) and Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, Israel (July-Aug). She lives in Omaha, NE with her husband where she has an art and design studio.
Kim’s paintings on paper have roots in automatism (creating art without conscious thought), abstract expressionism (spontaneity) and art informel (improvisatory methodology, highly gestural technique). See more artwork.
kimgoldbergdesign@gmail.com / 402.968.7493 / kimgoldberg.com