Marc Goldring

Vision of Trees
After growing up in Brooklyn, I spent a portion of my 20s homesteading in the woods of New Hampshire. For me, at that time, trees were either utilitarian (think, firewood) or romantic (think Walden Pond). Now as I walk around urban ponds in Boston, I find myself reconnecting to my experiences with the natural world, in particular the slow but relentless energy of trees.

I am attracted to trees as sculptural forms: the grace of limbs, the history of roots, the wounds of encounters with weather or humans, how their appearance changes with seasons and weather. All of these combine to provide an array of forms that seem to transcend my earlier descriptions and become worth looking at closely for their own sake.

I focus on the stories trees tell: about their own lives, their interactions one another and with humans. I aim to highlight the grace and tenacity of these living beings with which we share the planet.

Artist Bio

Marc Goldring makes photographs that capture the familiar in unfamiliar or unexpected ways. His recent work has focused on natural places – ponds, urban forests – over the course of years, capturing reflections, colors and textures that can be intimate landscapes, sometimes forming ambiguous and evocative images.

Goldring has exhibited in a solo show at the Cambridge Art Association’s satellite gallery in Harvard Square and at the Brookline Art Center, Brookline, MA. He currently has a show at one of The Griffin Museum’s satellite galleries. Recent group exhibitions include: The Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Cape Cod Art Center, Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery (online); and Cambridge Art Association. His self-published book, Discovering the Familiar, Selected Images and Words documents his photography and writing through 2008.

Goldring’s approach to photography echoes his artistic practice in an earlier career when he created sculptural forms in leather. His vessels are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg TN. During this time, he also received a Fulbright Lectureship to New Zealand and an Individual Artist Grant from the New Hampshire State Arts Council.

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