The Inflatable Sculpture of Jon Goldman

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urchin (inflatable costume)

urchin lamp Permanent Collection Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Musem, New York.

IN A LAMPREY’S MOUTH Computer-controlled interactive inflat-able sculpture, REAL ARt WAYS, HARtFORD, CT.

urchin (15 Feet) Parco, Hibarigaooka, Japan

Yellow Urchin (Boston, Massachusetts)

nudibranch Norwalk Maritime Center, Norwalk CT 50’

nudibranch Norwalk Maritime Center, Norwalk CT 50’ nudibranch South Station, Boston, Massachusetts 40’

Piano Hands Boston Lenox Hotel, 40’banner/10’ Hands

Window Washer Client: Tishman/Speyer 30 Rockefeller Center 50’foot

So Many Cones, So little Time Macquette, 8’ with internal lighting

So Many Cones, So little Time One of 10 30’ inflatable cones with internal lighting Cllient: Boston

Globe and Large scale “fiber optics” 20’ Globe, fiber optic curtain and TOTALLY TUBULAR balloons., theatrical lighting. CLIENT: INTEROP

hydra 110’ helium-holding inflatable sculpture Boston Arts Festival

novalunie (inflatable costume)

octopus (inflatable costume)

genie hands (inflatable costume) Walt Disney World, Orlando-Aladdin Parade)

TRUMP TAJ MAHAL BOW/RIBBON 40’X 25’ BOW AND A 300’ RIBBON “OPENED” WHEN A LASER BEAM HIT IT

STETHOSCOPE 40’ CLIENT: HARVAR COMMUNITY HEALTH PLAN

CRAB60’ INFLATABLE, CLIENT: OMNI HOTELS

CREATURE (inflatable costumeS JOINED BY HOOK AND LOOP)) FIRST NIGHT,Bostn, Massachusetts

Inflatable Bear (inflatable Puppet ( one of Four)

wind waterwall Inflatable Sculpture 50’

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Called a “digital renaissance man” by the Boston Globe, Jon Goldman is a media artist specializing in art and technology. He has produced and directed events, documentaries and segment episodes for Al Jazeera International, Discovery. As an artist for his company GoldmanArts he has designed and produced a wide variety of inflatable sculptures for Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Goldman received his Masters in Science in Visual Studies at MIT (1985) at the Center for Advanced

Visual Studies and his B.A. in Theater at Connecticut College, attended Middlesex University in London, the National Theatre Institute, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has won many awards includ-ing an InterArts grant from the NEA and Rockefeller Foundation for his computer-controlled interactivity with the inflatable sculpture.

Goldman currently runs his studio, THOUGHT BALLOON MEDIA, which serves as a laboratory for the development and exhibition of new work. His past innovative work of gigantic inflatable sculptures have been exhibited in and on museums and galleries throughout the U.S., Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. His work is in many collections including the Smithsonianʼs Cooper Hewitt National Design Museumʼs permanent collection.

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