Canal Street near Eldridge Street, from 19 Rainstorms
Neil Goldberg
American, born 1963
1998-2003
A nine-minute color video with sound in which Neil Goldberg lingers on a rain-softened view of Canal Street storefronts to turn an everyday city moment into a quiet, observational study of perception and memory.
You'd be struck by the soft, out-of-focus wash of neon signs and car shapes seen through a rain-speckled window—colors smudging together while the steady patter of rain and distant traffic gives the scene a hushed, intimate rhythm.
By attending to a brief, ordinary weathered moment, Goldberg blends documentary and experimental video practices to assert that the transient textures of urban life merit sustained looking, contributing to late-20th-century video art’s exploration of perception and place.
Medium
Video (color, sound)
Dimensions
9:06 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
3506.2005.17
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