Maureen Golgata

Maureen Golgata is a Massachusetts native whose desire to become an artist was realized at an early age. By twelve , she was admitted into the Danforth Museum of Art’s human anatomy and life drawing classes, where in the studio she rendered the nude extensively, using numerous mediums and techniques.

Maureen received her BA from Framingham State University and continued her studies at The Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC where she further explored a more complex use of paint and design. Significantly influenced by Modern art especially that of Expressionism she became intrigued with rendering directly and honestly her emotional response to the human condition. Works executed in mixed media on both canvas and paper incorporated bold color with exaggerated and distorted form to convey her interpretation of the battle between the individual and society.

Seeking to incorporate the visual world with the emotive Maureen spent 3 inspirational years studying with master painter, Paul Ingbretson. At the Ingbretson Atelier in Manchester, New Hampshire, she worked in North light from dawn to dusk, studying the arduous and time honored tradition of the Boston School Painters. This school of painters whose roots date back to Gerome and Atelier des Beax Arts in 19th century Paris, combine academic drawing and composition with the color and light of the French Impressionist painters.

As reflected in Maureen’s latest paintings she is interchanging and merging the expressive and visual world on canvas. Whether incorporating broken brush strokes, scrubbing and dripping paint to create a contemporary seascape or completely abstracting the surface with intuitive mark making, scraping, wiping and pouring bold color on canvas she continues to create a universal connection.