Ben Goldman

Studio 8

My art work is a blend of the classical and the modern. I combine the ideas of Symbolism with contemporary looks and concepts. Toward the goal of creating complex and interesting images, I surround my figurative works with layers of symbols and I utilize color to strengthen the emotional content.

Born to well educated parents, Ben Goldman was raised in a cultured world of art, music and literature. Since his earliest days he has been drawing. Through out his young life he had training in art and music. These early teaching carried on with him through out the hard years that followed.
For years he worked as a graphics and web designer, while doing freelance illustration jobs. His growing interest in drawing and painting lead him away from the high tech world of computers and back to college to get his B.F.A. in painting and drawing from Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia.
While living in the Atlanta area, he became involved with the vibrant art community there and began regularly showing his work. A dedicated and highly intelligent artist, he has shown his work in galleries and museums around the Atlanta area. His latest bodies of work include complex allegorical figural paintings that deal with time and memory, and a series of drawings done on game-boards that reveal the inner animal behavior of humans.
Ben Goldman is currently living in Marietta, Georgia. He works as an art conservator and freelance illustrator.