Georgia June Goldberg turned the weekend’s theme on its head after dinner. “Chaos and Creativity – where the strange crossroads lie.” Bah!
As humans true chaos is beyond us and Georgia knows a thing or two about the search for chaos.
She presented examples of art works seeking to break away from conventional order.
Despite the best efforts of avant garde movements like the Futurists and Da-daists. Their most radical paintings, sculpture and architecture still have form and pattern. As she deftly illustrated by showing examples of the works of Picasso and many others.
She shared with us some of her own paintings and art installations and through them her experiences with places and elements one would expect to find chaos lurking. But her journey of exploration that includes portraits of mental institution residents, collages of explosions and art installations that harness nature’s elements has brought her no closer to the elusive realm of chaos and formlessness.
Strive as artists might they can not escape the confides of pattern, order is created even if it seems random at the first glance.
If you have the opportunity, check out Georgia’s wonderful art installation entitled Emergence at the American University Museum in Washington DC. (it will be viewable until August 8, 2010).
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