ABOUT THE ARTIST
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
As an acupuncturist, I spend my days working at the threshold between what is seen and unseen; tracing the body's invisible channels, attending to energies that science is still learning to name. My paintings live on that same threshold.
I work in an abstract expressionistic style using acrylics. In my paintings I am building layered surfaces of paint that I scrape back into, letting color and depth emerge through the friction of that process. Recurring forms - orbs, floating heads, atmospheric voids function as portals: sites where corporeal and noncorporeal energy converge, where the physical world opens onto something subtler.
My visual language draws from spirituality, mysticism, and the chakra system; not as illustration, but as felt experience. I am interested in the body as a site of inner knowing, and in painting as a way of making that knowing visible. Each piece is less constructed than revealed- gestural marks accumulate, are obscured, and resurface, much the way healing itself works.
I hope these works invite a slower kind of looking- one that makes room for the energetic, the dreamlike, and the dimensions of human experience that resist easy naming.
BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Goldfedder is an artist and acupuncturist based in West Trenton, New Jersey, whose interdisciplinary practice integrates Chinese Medicine with his visual work. A transformative period living in New Mexico immersed him in a new world of healing, ultimately leading him to study acupuncture. Through his clinical practice, Goldfedder deepened his understanding of how vital energy, also known as Qi, moves through the body, shapes consciousness, and supports healing.
Goldfedder holds a BFA from the University of the Arts, an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College. He is also a Certified Medical Intuitive Practitioner (CMIP®) through The Practical Path. He currently practices acupuncture in Toms River and Barnegat, New Jersey, and continues to find ways to integrate art, healing, and spiritual inquiry in his work.
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