Eric Goldberg
Eric Goldberg passed away in July of 2021. Eric was a talented dedicated artist, a giving caring person and colleague. He was an integral part of the Printmakers Network of Southern New England as well as an active member in the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Boston Printmakers, the American Print Alliance and LA Printmaking Society. He was an accomplished printmaker with a passion for drawing and painting.
“My imagination is fueled by the world around me, by places and people and the thoughts and feelings they evoke. I make images that express these concepts and emotions. I want my images to convey both the natural world and deeper truths, which are wordless and need to be expressed through metaphor.”
His copper aquatint etchings are a part of many collections both national and international.
Visit his web site ericgoldberg.net
Joan Washburn Cole
Joan Washburn Cole passed away in March of 2018. She graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and studied printmaking at the University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut, University of New Mexico and at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, NM. She was an Associate Printmaker at Discover Graphics, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA until 1993 when she established Geaster Printmaking Studio in Mansfield, CT with her friends and fellow printmakers Janine Gugler and Ethel Warkov.
In addition to her art, Joan was an educator and taught art in public and private schools, including as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Hartford Art School. Joan was a lithographer whose prints had been exhibited throughout the Northeast.
Margot A. Rubin
Margot A. Rubin passed away in May of 2021. She attended Vassar College and the Courtauld Institute of Art, worked at the Yale’s Museum and taught printmaking at the Newport Art Museum School for 37 years.
Over the years her artwork included the Watergate etchings and large oil portraits in the 1970s, abstract mountainscapes in the 1980s, and an explosion of monoprints in the 1990s. In the early 2000s she became focused on painting again, working heavily in encaustic. In the 2010s, Margot inaugurated a new era, with an amazing proliferation of ceramic sculptures. In her last years, impacted by Parkinson’s, she took to art making on the iPad, producing layered images that carried on from her rich monotypes.