ARTIST’S PROJECT: NEIL GOLDBERG
“Missing the Train”


We’ve all experienced it—the precarious race down subway station stairs, only to be confronted with the closing doors of a departing car. Neil Goldberg’s series of video stills step into a place much more intimate than the subway platform (and more dramatic than you’d expect): the humbled faces of just-missers around New York City.

New York–based artist Neil Goldberg’s work was recently acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He has exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, among others. Goldberg is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Experimental Television Center. “Room Tone,” his most recent one-person exhibition, took place at New York City’s Sara Meltzer Gallery in 2006.








Esopus 8 (Spring 2007)

CONTENTS:
ARTIST’S PROJECT: NEIL GOLDBERG
“Missing the Train”

FOUND OBJECT: COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES
Contributed by Steve Weyl

SINGULAR NETWORK: THE MAKING OF CELL
By Headlong Dance Theater

CARTER AND THE KID
Fiction by Stuart Nadler

PAINTINGS FOR CASH
By “Penelope”

MODERN ARTIFACTS 2: “DEAR MISS MILLER…”
Introduction by Michelle Elligott

ARTIST’S PROJECT: DAWN CLEMENTS
“I Put Marc’s Sculpture on the Kitchen Table”

NEIL GREENBERG DRAWS MAPS
Introduction and Interview by Fritz Swanson

ARTIST’S PROJECT: ALLEN RUPPERSBERG
“House of Cards”

GUARDED OPINIONS 2
Commentary by Ruben Green and Wendy Iraheta

2001 IN RETROSPECT
By Angus Trumble