Maureen Golgata
Maureen Golgata (b. 1963, Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American abstract painter based in Naples, Florida. Her work explores human fragility, memory, and the duality of existence through scarred surfaces, erasure, and a saturated yet restrained palette. Through gestures of excavation and mark-making, she reveals the visible and invisible traces of emotional experience.
Maureen Golgata was born in 1963 in Framingham, Massachusetts, and is currently based in Naples, Florida. She is an American abstract painter whose practice is rooted in an intimate exploration of human fragility and the dualities that shape emotional life.
Her work responds to the impermanence of existence, functioning as a process of excavation where trauma and emotion leave physical and psychological traces. Each scrape and incision acts as a passage, each mark a memory—revealing what is seen and unseen.Through saturated hues and a restricted palette, Golgata conveys memory through shifting color, surface scarring, and erasure. Fragments, scratches, and silences emerge beneath the surface, reflecting how memory drifts in and out of clarity. She received her BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University and studied color theory and design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
She later pursued formal classical training in the tradition of the Boston School Painters under master painter Paul Ingbretson. Maureen exhibits nationally and internationally, including presentations during Art Basel Miami with Cube Art Fair and Red Dot Miami. Her work has been published in fine art, literary, and lifestyle publications, and is held in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
