Comes the Fall
by BR Goldstein

About the artist

BR Goldstein is a Canadian Artist who makes her home in Durham N.C. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto Canada, She received an MFA from Parsons the New School in New York, NY. Primarily a painter and textile Artist, Goldstein has worked extensively in film, video and performance installation. She has exhibited and received awards in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

About the exhibition

Comes the Fall is a collection of textile compositions created between 2020-2022 that highlight injustice as manifested in landscape and the contribution of capitalist production to the destruction of the environment. Often historically reduced to picturesque renderings, the landscape referenced in Comes the Fall encompasses elements beyond the scenic to include impositions caused by industry, poverty, and colonialism. 

Goldstein limits her materials to low quality, often repurposed industrial textiles in their unaltered states. In our everyday lives, such discarded or abandoned objects, the detritus of consumerism, become buried from consciousness as they are stored or disposed of out of sight. The materials referenced in these works were manufactured for single use and yet often find their way to providing long term shelter for those unhoused and displaced by systems of neglect.

The most recent work exhibited in Comes the Fall uses aerial Google Earth imagery of rural landscapes that reveal the land divisions made under the French Seigneurial system and English Dominion Lands Act, as the country was colonized. Goldstein has created sewn replicas of landscapes in Canada—effectively reproducing the artificial division of Indigenous lands by French and English settlers in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba