Goli
Goli’s paintings depict aspects of humanity. She has a kinship and admiration for the beauty and dignity of the ideal human spirit and form, one that is noble and free – which is sometimes captured best and made definitive in the abstract. Her images of individuals alone and in communal groups are stirring and strike at the elemental state of the human condition, sometimes bound together in support and love, and at other times isolated, either alone or in a crowd. The deeper felt reaction to her work goes beyond any type of provincial artistic genre, and the strength of the work is enforced by her choice to use a pallet knife, rather than the more traditional brush, creating bold areas of color and texture.
Significantly, her paintings mediate the tensions that are symptomatic of contemporary art. The warm and luminescent color palette and the mysterious forms lead to a unified sense of energy often lacking in post-modernism. Her paintings are less about thinking and more about intriguing energies from which they have arisen.
Goli graduated with a Bachelor's from the University of Tehran in 1977 and with her Master's from AIC (American International College) in Massachusetts in 1979. She worked for several years studying for her PhD at U Mass (University of Massachusetts) until she eventually moved to Southern California, where she now resides.
