Maureen Golgata

Maureen Golgata is an American abstract painter whose work explores fragility, memory, and the dualities that shape emotional life. Using a saturated yet restrained palette, she creates works where each scrape and incision acts as a passage, each mark a memory — revealing what is seen and unseen through surfaces scarred by gesture.

Her work responds to the impermanence of existence, functioning as a process of excavation where trauma and emotion leave physical traces. Layering saturated hues over scarred surfaces, her canvases invite contemplation of how memory drifts in and out of clarity.

Born in 1963 in Framingham, Massachusetts, Maureen Golgata studied at Framingham State University and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York before classical training under master painter Paul Ingbretson. She is based in Naples, Florida, and exhibits nationally and internationally, including during Art Basel Miami.