Jill Goldman-Callahan

About the Artist:

Jill Goldman-Callahan is a contemporary abstract painter interested in enchantment, mystery and process. She has an BA in Fine Arts and Anthropology from Bennington College and an MA in Art Therapy from Lesley University. Jill is a resident artist at the Umbrella Arts Center and is represented by the Three Stones Gallery in Concord MA. 

Jill has worked as an art therapist, art educator, art education supervisor and artist mentor. She taught public school art in the town of Wellesley for 21 years. Her work had been included in multiple juried shows including the Concord Art Association, LexArt, Castle Hill Gallery and The Umbrella Arts Center. She has had solo shows at Towle Hill Gallery, the Acton, Bedford and Concord Libraries, The Harvey Wheeler Community Center, Acton Village Works and Trinity Church.  People who live with her paintings say they bring their lives a sense of peace. 

Thomas Moore, the best selling author of Care of the Soul, called her work “ Not a painting of, but a peek into…” Madeline Lord in ArtScope July 2026, Artist Jill Goldman-Callahan returns to the Three Stones Gallery with a beautiful series of works that she calls “risky experiments.” Though her media includes disobedient ingredients like pumice, plaster and carborundum her calming results are extraordinary and consistent. Her acrylic palette of muted pastels, metal sheens and designs that may include a quieting horizon or shapes that appearto whisper to each other is all magical.

Her titles belie her intent and read like the chapters of a personal memoir: “Rejuvenation,” “Empathy Oasis,” “Friendship,” “Pheromone,” “Allure,” “Family,” “Safety.” How she tames her rebellious media choices to achieve these peace emitting works is a miracle. The surfaces are worn, splitting, flaking, restless and as she writes in her statement “well loved.” “Safety” is in grid form with layers of encrusted patterned designs that have individual identities and some conforming relations with others in the piece. It is a beautiful visual metaphor for we are different forms of a single species. It also seems to borrow from the origin of life forms, single cell protozoa from which all life eventually evolved.” 

Website:  https://www.jillgoldman-callahanstudio.com/

Email her to arrange a studio visit or ask a question at windbuddha@verizon.net.