A fine arts graduate of West Virginia University, Goldstein worked for seventeen years as a graphic designer and illustrator in the Washington, D.C. area before following her passion for painting. Her former focus on graphic design provides a solid compositional understanding in her fine artwork today.
Goldstein has enjoyed painting many varied subjects, but her current concentration is the landscape, with a particular focus on trees and reflections in water. Using pastels as her medium of choice, Goldstein layers color upon color to create luminous passages in her pieces.
Goldstein is a member of the Pastel Society of America, the Washington Project for the Arts, a studio artist at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia and a signature member of the Maryland Pastel Society, where she served on the board of directors for several years. Goldstein’s paintings have received numerous national awards and have been exhibited in juried shows across the country. Her work is represented at the Washington Street Gallery in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and has been exhibited at Koehnline Museum of Art in Des Plaines, Illinois, Eleven Pleasant Street Gallery in Kennebunk, Maine, and at the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, Illinois, among other locations. Additionally, Goldstein’s work was profiled in the August 2009 issue of the Pastel Journal magazine, which also included an article that Goldstein wrote to encourage artists to look at their work from a different perspective. Most recently, Goldstein was awarded a one-month artist residency in Dinan, France where she will paint. Upon completion of her month in France, one piece will be selected for the permanent collection in the art museum in Dinan.
A popular teacher, Goldstein received an outstanding instructor award from Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2006. Goldstein also teaches workshops in the mid-Atlantic area. Additionally, Goldstein has taught workshop classes at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., where she also regularly volunteers her time as a docent.
