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This spring, the walls of Gallery 6 at the Children’s Museum of NH will come alive with a new exhibit inspired by music. Visual Jazz: The Art of Roger Goldenberg will be on display from April 6 – May 30, showcasing the vibrant, mixed media works of this nationally recognized artist who is based on the Seacoast.

The Visual Jazz exhibit will showcase many of Goldenberg’s signature works – bold, colorful canvases with unique shapes and textures. Each elaborate piece reflects the artist’s love for and inspiration from the musical stylings of jazz. Goldenberg uses color, shape, movement and rhythm to build his artistic vision and create compelling, three-dimensional art.

"I play trumpet as a hobby and I listen to jazz as I work," explains Goldenberg. "My artistic language reflects my love for music – especially jazz and improvisation. My imagery is jazz made visible: layers of melodies and rhythms, swinging and syncopating, calling and responding."

"This visual improvisation is conjured from a deep place and appears as gestures, colors, symbols, and glyphs. Shapes, textures, and patterns move through me onto my canvas. My paintings share the complexity and innovation heard and felt in the Bee Bop innovations of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Byrd and jazz explorer of 'terra incognita,' Wayne Shorter."

He continues, "I paint with vibrant colors on highly textured, innovative, shaped canvases. These canvases are built with collaged fabrics, gesso, epoxy, string, and thin plywood. They are ingeniously lightweight and durable. The jigsaw puzzle shapes in my paintings are born from forms I see in nature. They become a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things in the world. The cutouts create vacant shapes and shadows, counterpoint to the painted shapes. The outer edges jut into space, casting shadows that move as the light of day changes. Arrangements in texture are the foundation for paint. This underlayer builds rhythms and gesture and is the structural underpinning for the spatial relationships I then create in paint."

The Visual Jazz exhibit in Gallery 6 can be viewed during regular business hours at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm and Sunday noon – 5 pm. No admission fee is required to view the gallery only. Regular admission applies for families who wish to explore the rest of the museum.

About Roger Goldenberg

Goldenberg has been praised in the news media as a "high quality abstract artist," his paintings are "a close metaphor for the best jazz"...remarkable for their "expertly choreographed compositions." During a Boston exhibition, Roger Goldenberg's paintings were chosen by the Boston Globe's Calendar Choice as pick of the week. His abstract pieces are like "improvisational conversations in paint" that develop in his subconscious mind. Chris Millis, the former Living Arts Editor for Boston's South End News and editor for artsMEDIA, exclaimed that "these are paintings you could 'listen' to forever."

After viewing Roger Goldenberg’s solo exhibition at the AVA Gallery and Art Center in 2009, art critic and painter, Robert Carsten, described to the artist his students’ response to the exhibition; "They were so energized by your paintings during their work break. They couldn’t stop talking about them. Roger, he exclaimed, your artwork has the power my work has to move people."

In 2006, Goldenberg was awarded the U.S. Small Business Administration's New Hampshire "Home-Based Business Champion of the Year." He was lauded by governor John Lynch at an awards ceremony sponsored by the NH Small Business Association.

In 2007, Goldenberg received the Artist Entrepreneur Grant Award from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts for his innovative plan to enhance his website and to create his new webstore: www.rgpaintswebstore.com. This award is made possible by appropriations from the Governor of New Hampshire, the NH State Legislature and a National Endowment for the Arts grant to the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

Goldenberg has exhibited with numerous galleries including solos at the Alliance for Visual Arts Gallery, Lebanon, NH; the Judi Rotenberg Gallery on Newbury Street, Boston; Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH; the former Rye Gallery, Rye, NH. Goldenberg is currently searching for a high-quality gallery in a major metropolitan city.

About the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire

The Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is located at 6 Washington Street in Dover and offers two levels of hands-on, custom-created exhibits for children ages 1-12. Children can explore a wide range of subjects, from dinosaurs, music and aeronautics to world cultures, art and natural history. Open year-round, the museum hosts a variety of live performances, workshops, classes and special events for families. For more information, please call the museum at (603) 742-2002 or visit the official web site.