Marc Goldring |
Artist
Statement
From almost the very beginning, my intention
has been to seek out that which we usually ignore and
to find something to look at, to see. When I am shooting
the urban world, it is often the interplay between
human and organic – rust or small slivers of
piles of garbage or lines painted on streets. When
I approach the natural world, I find myself drawn to
decay and broken things.
Mind you, this is not a morbid streak.
Rather, it is my increasingly strong sense that if
we truly know and love the light, it is because we
have learned to see – and appreciate - the
dark. To celebrate living, we must acknowledge – no,
celebrate – dying.
To honor life, we honor all of it – the
dark, the light, the ugly and dirty and tired as well
as the glorious, the bountiful, the beautiful. To celebrate
living, we also celebrate dying. It is very much a
spiritual exercise for me, a practice of humility and
patience. To see the difficult world of decay and disorder
and surprise and to find beauty or humor or connection
residing there: that’s the work, my work. It
is all part of letting go of unnecessary categories
that I have accumulated, so I can be left sitting with
what is left - pure, simple, holy. I invite you into
this exploration.
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By Marc Goldring
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Bio
Since 1999, Marc Goldring has run MarcoClicks,
an art photography studio specializing in web and print images,
committed to on-going experimentation. He has been as Associate
Principal at WolfBrown since 1884, a consulting firm providing
a range of services to nonprofit organizations primarily
in the arts, including strategic planning, facility and fund-raising
feasibility studies, and program evaluations. For fifteen
years, Marc owned Goldring Art Leather, a leather studio
with production work shown in Brookstone catalogue; sculptural
work in Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Arrowmont School
Permanent Collection, Coach Leatherwear Collection; lectured/taught
at Haystack, Smithsonian Institution; Fulbright lectureship
to New Zealand; individual artist grant from NH State Council
on the Arts.) Marc currently lives in the Boston area.
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