Step into the mind of Colin Goldberg

NORTH BENNINGTON — For most people, viewing art is an experience that is best shared. As you gaze at a piece, and take in its complexities, something profound often transpires. You become immersed in the experience – forming concepts, pondering the creative process, exploring the possible influences and intentions. If you’re lucky, you can share your interpretative experience with another by way of a meaningful dialogue. If you’re really lucky, you can share your interpretations with the artist – and this is when the art can truly come alive. In the case of local North Bennington artist Colin Goldberg, who has pioneered and championed the techspressionist movement, full immersion becomes this reality. Using a simple cell phone app, Goldberg takes the hand of every viewer and steps them over the threshold of his work – gently transporting them into the heart of the art. Inside, color swirls. Shapes evolve, twisting and spiraling out of frame only to emerge once again, cycling in toward the center once again. Birds chirp in the distance, a train whizzes by, there is a gust of wind nearby, and NASA scientists converse. The viewer has – quite literally – entered the headspace of Colin Goldberg....