The Inflatable Sculpture of Jon Goldman

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sculpture portfolio

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urchin (inatable costume)


urchin lamp Permanent Collection Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Musem, New York.

IN A LAMPREY’S MOUTH Computer-controlled interactive inflatable sculpture, REAL ARt WAYS, HARtFORD, CT.


urchin (15 Feet) Parco, Hibarigaooka, Japan


Yellow Urchin

(Boston, Massachusetts)


nudibranch Norwalk Maritime Center, Norwalk CT

50’


nudibranch South Station, Boston, Massachusetts 40’


Piano Hands

Boston Lenox Hotel, 40’banner/10’ Hands


Window Washer

Client: Tishman/Speyer 30 Rockefeller Center 50’foot


So Many Cones, So little Time Macquette, 8’ with internal lighting


So Many Cones, So little Time

One of 10 30’ inatable cones with internal lighting Cllient: Boston


Globe and Large scale “fiber optics” 20’ Globe, fiber optic curtain and TOTALLY TUBULAR balloons., theatrical lighting. CLIENT: INTEROP


hydra

110’ helium-holding inflatable sculpture Boston Arts Festival


novalunie (inatable costume)


octopus (inatable costume)


genie hands

(inatable costume) Walt Disney World, OrlandoAladdin Parade)


TRUMP TAJ MAHAL BOW/RIBBON

40’X 25’ BOW AND A 300’ RIBBON “OPENED” WHEN A LASER BEAM HIT IT


STETHOSCOPE

40’ CLIENT: HARVAR COMMUNITY HEALTH PLAN


CRAB

60’ INFLATABLE, CLIENT: OMNI HOTELS


CREATURE

(inямВatable costumeS JOINED BY HOOK AND LOOP)) FIRST NIGHT,Bostn, Massachusetts



Inflatable Bear

(inflatable Puppet ( one of Four)


wind waterwall Inflatable Sculpture 50’


Called a “digital renaissance man” by the Boston Globe, Jon Goldman is a media artist specializing in art and technology. He has produced and directed events, documentaries and segment episodes for Al Jazeera International, Discovery. As an artist for his company GoldmanArts he has designed and produced a wide variety of inflatable sculptures for Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Goldman received his Masters in Science in Visual Studies at MIT jon goldman (1985) at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and his B.A. in Theater at Connecticut College, attended Middlesex University in London, the National Theatre Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has won many awards including an InterArts grant from the NEA and Rockefeller Foundation for his computer-controlled interactivity with the inflatable sculpture. Goldman currently runs his studio, THOUGHT BALLOON MEDIA, which serves as a laboratory for the development and exhibition of new work. His past innovative work of gigantic inflatable sculptures have been exhibited in and on museums and galleries throughout the U.S., Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. His work is in many collections including the Smithsonianʼs Cooper Hewitt National Design Museumʼs permanent collection. 978 505 5796 j @ g o ld m an ar t s . c o m • goldmanar ts.com


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