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Stuart Gold October 21.1949 - June 3, 2018

Born in Los Angeles, Stuart Gold studied at UC Davis with artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Peterson and Roy Deforest. In 1980, he received his masters degree from SF State University in Printmaking. Prolific in sculpture, paint, digital and design mediums, he is known for his famous TV series inspired by his father, a TV repairman in Los Angeles. Fascinated by distorted Television media, he dove into the syntax, color and vibrancy of the eye's interaction with television pixels of the time, representing them in oil and acrylic media. This endeavor yielded portraits and commercial art into images that vibrate and move the eye to another dimension. Best known are his Overlord and Hat Flutter. However, his range of artistic expression embraces the gamut of abstract to realistic to scientifically correct coelacanth sculpted creatures of the deep ocean. His deep interests in art, science, sculpture, anthropology, and musical instrument-making impacted his artistic vision, resulting in creative reliability and a strong force of movement.

Gold discovered his calling while in the peace corps, in the middle of a rain storm. He decided to do Art instead of become a doctor. He was 23 and had volunteered for the Peace Corps to work on eradication of small pox. He is credited with finding the last outbreak of smallpox in South Eastern Ethiopia, in the Kaffa province. Before his death, Stuart wrote about this discovery in chapter 7 of Eradicating Smallpox in Ethiopia: The Peace Corps, which came out the year following his death.

Gold describes his work as 'metaphors for the distortion of reality'. The son of a former TV repairman, Gold grew up in Los Angeles, the TV capital of the planet, and from an early age was bombarded by video imagery. You couldn't even go to the bathroom without seeing TV, 'he recalls. We had dinner conversations between commercials. There were sometimes fifty TVs at a time in our garage.

Gold himself had seven TVs in his San Francisco apartment. But actually his first obsessions were primates and rockets. An artist since he was twelve, he earned a degree in primate biology at UC Davis, then went to Ethiopia with the Peace Corps. One night, during an African rainstorm, he flashed on how to finish a painting back home. From then on, art was it.

Already having studied art in college under such luminaries as Wayne Thibaud, and Roy DeForest, Gold went for his master's degree in printmaking at San Francisco State, where the TV legacy of his childhood finally caught up with him. His thesis was a series of prints satirically depicting the effects of TV on society. His facility for realistic drawing next led him to produce his unique series of environmental portraits, in which each person is set in his or her own special universe.

While figuring out how to portray the errant screen, Gold got hooked on static TV imagery.
About the Author: Stuart Gold studied at UC Davis with artists such as Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Peterson and Roy Deforest. In 1980, he received his masters degree from SF State University in Printmaking. In 1985, after making a living for a number of years as a traditional painter/printmaker, he discovered an interest in computer generated imagery and animation and subsequently became one of the first generation of artists/non-technical programmers to be actively involved in the production of computer animation and graphics for the video industry. Hired by Pacific Bell Corporate Television in 1986 to create graphics and animations for in-house and satellite programming, he went on to be one of two artists/animators creating work for Hewlett-Packard Media Services and finally in 1988 became head of computer graphics and animation for Tandem Computers and Tandem Television Network. In 1989, he started Shadow and Light Productions specializing in industrial and broadcast computer graphics, bio-medical animation, and the creation of Forensic Animation and multimedia. After years in the computer graphics field, he has come full circle, built himself a studio in the foothills south of Grass Valley California. When in the Peace corps at age 23, Stuart Gold decided to be an artist instead of a doctor. However, before he left the Peace Corps he found the last outbreak of small pox in the Kaffa province of Southwestern Ethiopia. His chapter on this adventure appears in the book, Eradicating Smallpox in Ethiopia.Gayle Peterson, LCSW, PhD was married to Stuart Gold for 30 years. She is a psychotherapist, author of several books on family and childbearing and has served on many websites as a family therapist. Her website won an award from the American Association Marriage and Family Therapy for benefit to families. Her work can be viewed at: www.askdrgayle.com


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  • ISBN-13: 9781098340384
  • Publisher: Bookbaby
  • Publisher Imprint: Bookbaby
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 218 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1098340388
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jan 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 820 gr


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