Charles Goldman (conceptual artist)

Charles Goldman (born San Francisco, California, 1966) is an American conceptual artist whose work spans sculpture, installation, performance, painting and drawing.

[1][2][3] His practice involves mundane construction materials, household objects, or studio scraps that are refashioned using self-imposed systems that recontextualize experiences of public and private space and time.

[2][25] San Francisco Chronicle critic Kenneth Baker described the massive work as an ostensible reworking of the 1960s stacked minimalism of Joseph Beuys, Richard Serra and Tony Cragg.

"[3] In the 2010s, Goldman has developed a green building material called RE>CRETE> made from pulped newspapers and junk mail, shredded CDs, DVDs and credit cards, cut-up home electronic wires, dryer lint, and ground-up packing foam.

[29][28] Roberta Smith singled out Goldman's RE>CRETE>BLKS in the Museum of Arts and Design's "NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial" (2014) as one of the projects exemplifying critical thinking about innovation and purpose.