Limited Edition Giclées from Original Pastels by Stephanie Goldman

This series was created from original pastels hand-made by the artist. Using a unique pastel formula that produces pure pigments of the highest quality, Goldman was able to customize her own palette into brilliant individual colors of clear tints and saturated darks. These color-specific pastels were essential to create the unique harmonies and color vibrations evident in each attitude. Goldman uses specially textured paper that holds many layers of pastel over an initial underpainting in watercolor. Stroking one pastel over another, a rich and varied orchestration of color ensues, revealing an image that is as exciting to look at up close as it is from a distance. Goldman maintains a constant vigilance with her use of colors, always looking for opportunities to push dynamic contrasts.

Each attitude shown is a progression, unfolding as naturally as a flower opening in spring. Each figure suggests a state of giving or receiving, the gestures reduced to their simplest forms in the ambient space that surrounds them. This stillness is then brought into activity and texture through the use of wild, yet controlled, calligraphic lines. As the attitudes unfold, the vivid colors with which each movement and figure connect to one another evoke a new sense of beauty. These naked figures are a vivid reminder of the harmony, energy, ecstasy, pathos and humility that is a part of the feminine experience.