Rebekah Goldstein’s paintings depict imagined structures and spaces that push the boundary between abstraction and traces of the familiar. Each painting relies on and creates its own internal logic. Ignoring laws of gravity and perspective, Goldstein’s paintings portray structures that could only exist within the world of a painting – the perspective is warped, the figure and ground constantly flip and the structure appears to simultaneously hold together and fall apart. In contrast, the sculptures – as if plucked from the paintings into real time and space, are beholden to the natural world of physics, reliant on gravity and an actualized physicality.

Goldstein received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2012, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004. Her work has been exhibited at CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions (San Francisco), Jack Geary Contemporary (New York), The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), City Limits (Oakland), George Lawson Gallery (San Francisco), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), 100% Gallery (San Francisco), TMoro Projects (Santa Clara), The Battery (San Francisco), Alter Space Gallery (San Francisco), Pro Arts (Oakland), and Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley). Goldstein has been awarded residencies at the Sam and Adele Golden Center for the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Arad Arts Project. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, as well private collections throughout the Bay Area. She is represented by CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.