Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Painting, Sculpture
Website: rebekahgoldstein.com
Rebekah Goldstein (b. 1982, San Jose, CA) is a San Francisco-based painter and sculptor. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2004, with additional studio training at the Académie Port-Royal Painting and Drawing Studio in Paris in 2003, before completing an MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2012. Goldstein has taught fine art at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute for more than fifteen years and has been a charter resident of the Minnesota Street Project Studio Program since 2016.
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland, OR), the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, the Google Collection, the Fidelity Collection, and Nordstrom, as well as numerous private collections. She has been featured in Artforum, New American Paintings (Issues 121 and 157, Pacific Coast editions), Art LTD, Art Practical, SFAQ, and Square Cylinder. Goldstein has been represented by CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Gallery 16, Denny Gallery (New York, NY), and Rosenbaum Contemporary (Boca Raton, FL).
Goldstein makes abstract oil paintings that explore color, form, and structure in relation to the human body and the built environment. Her canvases depict imagined architectural spaces and structures that deliberately ignore gravity and conventional perspective, drawing on motifs from architecture, landscape, textiles, and art history—filtered through a personal visual vocabulary of recurring shapes, symbols, and colors that she reassembles and “choreographs” across each composition. Around 2018, following the birth of her daughter, Goldstein began working on shaped canvases—irregular polygons and relief panels that extend the painted image beyond the rectangle—a development she has described as a direct response to her own changing body. Critics have cited influences ranging from Cubism and Constructivism to Bay Area Figurative painters such as Joan Brown, as well as Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin, and the Memphis design movement. Square Cylinder described her as “among the best mid-career painters in the Bay Area” and characterized her practice as “a secular form of devotion.”
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