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Artist Jeffrey Gold has been working with Granite Senior Center and Public Art staff to develop a long-term (3 year) artist residency and series of community workshops that will result in a very large, multi panel painting.

The painting will be a historic timeline and non-traditional portrait which is at once intimate and personal as well as a universal touchstone. The painting’s timeline will cover some 50 years plus and chronicle events beginning with

Mock-up of First Panel

World War II and ending with current imagery and icons through 2011. The painting will be aprx. 6’ 5” (h) x 30’ (7 panels aprx 6’6” x 4’ 28”).

The painting will reflect key events historical in Jeffrey Gold's life and times from 1958 – 2011.  Each panel will cover about 10 years of time. 

For example the first panel might include:

• Gold's birth certificate                                                                  

• A photo of his father in his WWII Navy uniform

• A baby picture

• Toys

• Comic book

• Drawing tools

• Report card

• Model airplane

• An older yearbook snapshot or some kind of family photo

• Disney memorabilia

• A campaign button from the times

• Newspaper headline or clipping

• Sketchbook pages

• Images from television

In the first panel, as in all subsequent panels, Gold will choose objects that are personal but at the same time universal in nature—so that the objects in the painting will trigger   memories and emotions of viewers. 

The painting should serve to stimulate conversations and stir nostalgic feels.  In this way viewers will feel a strong connection to the work.  The senior center is a perfect venue for his project.  Gold is also very interested in working with staff to engage the community in the project through a series of

Work in Progress - NOT FINAL PIECE

ongoing workshops and gallery style talks—throughout the duration of the project.

Prior to beginning the first panel, he will do extensive research of the time period and then create a proposed composition and present a thumbnail for consideration.  Gold will repeat this process with each subsequent panel.

Gold will also conduct community workshops in which area residents are invited to meet me and present objects that have special meanings for them.  The center staff and the artist will seek objects that have universal appeal. 

At the workshop, an overview of his work will be presented, so that the participant will have an idea of Gold's working method, ideas, and style.

Please visit Jeffrey Gold's website, Jeffrey Gold Studio