About GINI WALTERS GOLDIE
Defining myself comes easily for me now. It hasn’t always been that way. Now realize I am many people - not just to others, but to myself also. I am artist, wife, mother, teacher, spiritual seeker, anthropologist/archaeologist, friend, neighbor, and citizen of the world among many other lesser roles. Like everyone, I have aspects (though not all at any moment in time!) all intertwined that make Gini Walters Goldie a unique person.
What I attempt to do is to allow my paintings to evolve out of both past experience and the immediate artistic experience - which I perceive as both mystical and magical. The patterns of life that are evoked in my paintings come from both techniques developed over a lifetime and that sublime involvement in the moment - or what is known as the process of creating.
A Short Biography
I arrived in Arizona’s beautiful Verde Valley in 1994, but I was born and raised in New York City and was fortunate to have experience the joys of artistic creativity that NYC had to offer - from the Beatnik Cafes and Schools of Greenwich Village to the wonders of Broadway and the Uptown Museums and Galleries. Later I moved to Long Island, got a BA in Art & Education from Adelphi and began my art career with a NYC theatrical advertising firm. These were some of the happiest days of my life, but the commute finally got the better of me and I accepted an art teaching position which was closer to home - and is where I met my husband, poet and college instructor Vic Goldie. We had four children and professional art career took a back burner, but I managed to get two Master’s degrees - one in Liberal Studies and one in Anthropology & Archaeology - both from SUNY at Stony Brook, the beautiful north shore town where we lived for thirty years.
Although I had painted and exhibited all those interim years between my NYC theatrical advertising art career and my career as an archaeologist, it was not until I came to Arizona that I was able to devoted sufficient time to exploring my passion for artistic creation. In addition to creating art, I teach courses at Yavapai College - Verde Campus in Anthropology, Women's Studies and various Liberal Studies courses including Contemporary Women Artists. I also teach art workshops in “Creativity & Vision” in various locations.
I am a juried member of the Northern Arizona Watercolor Society - NAWS, the Sedona Visual Artists Coalition - SVAC, full member of the national Society of Layerists in Mutli-Media - SLMM, El Valle Artists Association - EVAA, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts - Friends level. Besides exhibits in NY and AZ, I have also exhibited in Ajijic, Mexico and my work is in numerous private collections nationwide, primarily along the Eastern coast, Mass., DE, NY & Washington, D.C. areas, Mexico and now Arizona. Recently, one of my paintings was part of the “Fire in the Heart” exhibit at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR.
In July - October of 2007, two of my wall assemlbages (Ancient Dwellings & Atlantis) will be shown at the "Exploring Multple Dimensions"at the Albuquerque Museum in Neww Mexico. Both museum opportunities came about from my full member affliliation with the Society of Layerists in Mutli- Media.
Through various art groups mentioned above, I have been associated with the following local galleries: Goldenstein Gallery, in Uptown Sedona; Sedona Art Center; and several outdooe exhibits and month long gallery exhibits at Tlaquepaque in Sedona: "Made In Clarkdale" Annual Shows; and the Manheim Gallery as well as two wonderful galleries no longer in existence: Main Street Gallery & my own Masterpieces Gallery all in Old Town Cottonwood; Clemenseau Museum, Cottonwood Library, and Verde Valley Fairgrounds all in Cottonwood and "Spook Hall" in that wonderful tourist old mining town of Jerome.
Gini Walters Goldie