Goldes is Unpredictable at Dreamsong Gallery | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Goldes is Unpredictable at Dreamsong Gallery

February 21, 2023
Image
A graphite drawing of various gray circles, with electric brown damage.
David Goldes

Professor Emeritus David Goldes is currently displaying his solo exhibition Unpredictable at the Dreamsong Gallery in Minneapolis.

The exhibition is centered around the force of electricity, and how Goldes pumps 15,000 volts of power through his graphite patterned drawings to harness the unpredictable results that follow.

Talking to the Star Tribune, Goldes went through his thought process on how the exhibit came to be. "I went to the MCAD Art Cellar and bought graphite sticks, many kinds of graphite pencils—anything that contained graphite for drawing. I tried all of them and I came up with a version of graphite that was most conductive and that's where it started. I was very excited about the possibility that this material could have two functions—and in a wonderful way they were the antithesis of each other."

Unpredictable
On view through March 11
Dreamsong Gallery (Minneapolis)

Learn more

Explore more about