Island Painting

After a Summer in New York in 1968 he decided to move to New York the following year. He was educated in the School of Fine Art Graphic in Paris. He later became a commercial artist with a passion for photography that never abandoned him. Photography had to become an important tool in his development as an artist. Back then he flirted with the idea of becoming a full time photographer working for National Geographic. Over the years he has built an important collection of his photos. They are an inspiration for large scale paintings. The photographs he took at Central Park during the Youth Vietnam Demonstrations have been exhibited in a well-known Paris Art/Photo Gallery, in the left bank. For Jean-Claude painting and photography are linked together, but drawing freely is a passion that stayed with him since the age of 5. Although most of his life he worked as an Advertising Art Director for big International Advertising Agencies, he never ceased drawing and painting. Today he has more than a two hundred charcoal drawings in his file. For the past 26 years, he is a full time painter, and thinks that Art can be made out of everything like consumer goods, a real inspiration that has given place to large scale canvas. He looks at it with a different eye by transforming reality into something else that is given new life. Colors and form with fine finish brush stroke gave his canvas its own special style. Goldberg started working with mostly figurative work. Large scale charcoal on paper.