ABOUT THE ARTIST
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
As an acupuncturist, I trace the body's invisible channels, attending to what's out of balance. My paintings live in that same territory — the space between what's seen and unseen.
Working in an abstract expressionist style, I build layered surfaces with acrylic, then scrape back into them, letting color and depth emerge through friction. Recurring forms — orbs, floating heads, atmospheric voids — function as portals: sites where physical and energetic forces converge.
I approach painting as a form of channeling. Moving intuitively, I let spirit speak through the process, opening the physical surface onto something subtler. My visual language draws from energy systems, mysticism, and chakra traditions — not as illustration, but as felt experience.
The body, for me, is a site of inner knowing, and painting is how I make that knowing visible. These works are less constructed than revealed. Marks accumulate, are obscured, and resurface — much the way healing itself works.
The paintings ask for a slower kind of looking. What emerges resembles dreamlike recollection: something familiar that resists easy naming.
BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Goldfedder is a New Jersey–based artist whose practice has evolved through a lifelong engagement with art, healing, and spiritual inquiry. He received a BFA from the University of the Arts and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University before pursuing a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College.
A transformative period living in New Mexico introduced Goldfedder to acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, profoundly altering his understanding of the relationship between the body, consciousness, and the unseen dimensions of human experience. This experience set him on a parallel path as both artist and healer, with each discipline continually informing and enriching the other.
For two decades, Goldfedder has worked as a licensed acupuncturist, helping patients navigate physical, emotional, and energetic challenges. His continued study of intuitive healing and mediumship has further expanded his understanding of perception, healing, and the interconnected nature of reality. These experiences have become an important foundation for his creative practice.
Working primarily in painting and drawing, Goldfedder explores themes of energy, transformation, and the relationship between visible and invisible aspects of experience. His work reflects an ongoing interest in consciousness, healing, and the mysteries that exist beyond ordinary perception.
Goldfedder's studio practice is grounded in the belief that art can reveal dimensions of experience that are often felt but not easily seen. Through a career spanning art, healing, and spiritual exploration, he continues to investigate the connections between inner experience and the wider world.
He lives and works in New Jersey.
EXHIBITIONS
Sophia Stef Gallery, ‘The Six Senses”, Juried Exhibition, The People’s Store, 28 North Union Street, 3rd Floor, Lambertville, NJ, April - May, 2026
Sophia Stef Gallery, ‘One Day, One Work” , Juried Exhibition, The People’s Store, 28 North Union Street, 3rd Floor, Lambertville, NJ, August - September, 2025
Sophia Stef Gallery, The People’s Store, 28 North Union Street, 3rd Floor, Lambertville, NJ, June - July 2025
Time and Memory, Virtual Exhibition: An international juried group show featuring Time and Memory themed Artworks from Artists around the world, Hosted by Arts to Hearts Project, April - May 2025
The Tapestry of Life: Perspective on Healing and Wellness with Color, Textile & Pattern, Joseph Goldfedder & Audrey Jakab, West Windsor Arts & Merwick Rehab Hospital, Princeton, NJ, 2023
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 2023 West Windsor Member Art Show, “Moment”, Best in Show Award, Juror, Katie Truk, Princeton Junction, NJ, 2023
Radius 14, Celebrating our Local Artists, Gallery 14, Hopewell New Jersey, 2023
Red Hot Extremism, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ, 2022
Sculpture, New Hope 2022, Juror, Dana Stewart, New Hope, PA 2022
New Hope Arts Members’ Spring Salon Exhibition 2022, Juror, Paul Murphy, New Hope, PA 2022
West Windsor Arts Members Show: Horizon, Jurors, Carolina Blatt Ph.D and Matt Stemler, Princeton Junction, NJ, 2022
Well-Being Ourselves: Reflect, Reimagine, Connect, West Windsor Arts and Whole World Arts, Jurors Chanika Svetvilas and Gwynneth Van Laven, Princeton, NJ, 2021
Heartburn, A Valentine’s Day Community Art Show, Eye’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
OUT WEST, Plan B Evolving Arts, Curated by Harmony Hammond, Santa Fe, NM, 1999
Tin and Rice Paper Lamps, Santa Fe Furniture Expo, Santa Fe, NM, 1996
Tin and Rice Paper Lamps, Zoo Gang Studios, Madrid, NM, 1994
Tin and Rice Paper Lamps, Decosphere, Albuquerque, NM, 1994
NM Thirty, Ralph Greene Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, 1994
Alumni Reunion Exhibit, The University of the Arts, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1993
National Works on Paper, University of Richmond, Marsh Gallery, Juror: Charlotte Katie, 1992
VIM Group, Richmond, VA, 1991
Mint Museum of Art Biennial, Charlotte, NC, Juror: Bruce Guenther, 1990
Philadelphia Camerata II, The University of the Arts, Haviland Galleries, Philadelphia, PA,1989
Corrugated Objects, Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1989
Five More Sculptors, 1708 E. Main Street Gallery, Richmond, VA, 1989
High Art, Richmond International Airport, Richmond, VA, Juror Huston Pascal, 1988
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Drawings & Sculpture, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA 1988
Sculpture 88, Towson State University, Townson, MD, 1988
VCU Graduate Exchange Show, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1988
Faculty/Graduate Show, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA, 1987
VCU Student Fine Arts Show, Richmond, VA, Juror: Jack Solomon, 1987
Triskadekaphobics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1987
FELLOWSHIP AND AWARDS
Janet Hunt Award for Emerging Artist, ShadFest Poster Auction, Lambertville, NJ, 2025
Yaddo, Fellow, August-September, 1992
Virginia Commission for the Arts, Honorable Mention Prize for Prints and Drawings, 1989
EDUCATION
Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine, (MSOM), Southwest Acupuncture College, Albuquerque, NM
Master of Fine Art, (MFA), Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Bachelor of Fine Art, (BFA), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA