Cover Image: Colin Goldberg, Dr. No, 2020. Acrylic and ink on linen, 48×36 inches. Private collection. Image courtesy Helmholz Fine Art.
Five Towns College resident artist and designer Colin Goldberg’s painting “Dr. No” was featured on the cover of today’s issue of Dan’s Papers, along with an interview about Techspressionism with artist and staff writer Oliver Peterson. The issue includes a great article by artist staff writer and artist Oliver Peterson. Dan’s Papers has the largest circulation of any publication in the Hamptons and on the East End of Long Island. It is distributed weekly to over 1,200 locations in the Hamptons, Long Island, and Manhattan. Colin was also interviewed via Zoom about Techspressionism by Dan’s Papers founder Dan Rattiner for his podcast “Who’s Here in the Hamptons;” which you can watch here.
Goldberg invented the term “Techspressionism” in 2011 to describe his technology-fueled paintings. Since then, Techspressionism has developed into an international movement of artists from over 45 countries. It was first described as a movement in the 2014 WIRED article “If Picasso had a Macbook Pro” and was later elaborated upon in a 2015 interview on the PBS show Art Loft. Techspressionism has also become a widely used hashtag on social media, with over 80K Instagram posts by artists around the globe using the hashtag #techspressionism. More information on the movement is available at techspressionism.com.
Colin Goldberg with his Augmented Reality Artwork “Circuit” at Helmholz Fine Art in Manchester, Vermont.
The artist’s most recent project is a unique book titled Metagraphs: Augmented Reality Art. When the reader views the works of art in the book with the Artivive mobile app, they animate right on the pages of the book. It is the first AR art book on Amazon.
In the 1990’s the artist supported his studio practice as a freelancer in NYC advertising agencies, coding and designing some of the web’s first consumer-facing sites and launching brands such as Merrill Lynch, Snapple and Popular Science Magazine online. Colin has been working with Five Towns College since 2016, when he was initially brought on to redesign the college’s website. Since then, he has created digital illustrations, print advertising, apparel design, brand assets, and perhaps most notably, the visual identity for the school’s mascot, Fader. A few examples of his work with FTC are below. Colin, who was born in the Bronx, grew up in Southampton and now lives and works in North Bennington, Vermont with his daughter Aya. You can learn more about the artist and his work at goldberg.art, and follow him on Instagram at @colingoldberg.
