BR Goldstein makes fabric paintings using principles of quilting and collage. These works incorporate repurposed and found materials; cheap, provisional textiles like tarps and plastic sheeting that provide insufficient shelter; and used cloth that references the body, wounds, fragility, labor, and inadequate solutions to deeply rooted problems.

While this work is based on principles found in the 1960s and 70’s minimalism and geometric abstraction, the materials used tend to fight each other—so they break down the hard edges, straight lines, and appearance of perfection that are characteristic of those artistic movements. Goldstein trusts that the material carries a meaning that is both associative and metaphoric, replacing the cleanliness of earlier movements with tension and a sense of the unfinished.