"Joan Mitchell made a name for herself in the art world through her large scale paintings featuring gestural, emotionally charged mark making. Working mainly as an abstract-expressionist, her paintings vibrate in her use of color and the movement of brushstrokes across the canvas. Though her paintings appear to be non-objective, as one spends time with them, a sense of depth and space, of place starts to form."
"El Prado, the new album from Portland resident Eli Goldberg's Ann Annie project, likewise evokes memories of landscapes. Most tracks have simple titles-"the ocean" or "slow river"-while Ann Annie's Bandcamp bio simply reads, "a beautiful landscape." The album cover captures wind moving across a grassy hillside in ways reminiscent of director Hayao Miyazaki, another artist deeply interested in the small beautiful moments of landscape."
""On a separate note, I am an adoptee and my birth family's last name is Prado. I found [that] out while researching my last name and learning it means 'the meadow.' [This was] after deciding the theme of the record." Prado as both the landscape and part of Goldberg's personal history reinforces the idea that humans carry landscape within them; it influences our daily lives, our subconscious grabbing at color and texture."
Joan Mitchell created large-scale abstract-expressionist paintings that use gestural mark-making, vibrant color, and brush movement to conjure depth and a sense of place from memory. Eli Goldberg's Ann Annie project channels similar memory-driven landscapes on El Prado, with simple track titles and a meadow-focused cover image. Goldberg discovered his birth surname means 'the meadow,' linking personal history to the album theme. The record positions natural landscapes as restorative contrasts to modern commercial environments that overwhelm perception. Ann Annie's earlier releases favored dreamy synths, while later work incorporated live instrumentation, classical framing, and folk influences.
Read at Portland Mercury
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