“There is no question that what Goldin offers encompasses a religious dimension. The aesthetic that suffuses many, if not most, of her best-known images is blatantly Catholic in both atmosphere and iconography. Her countless beds, for example, whether occupied or empty, New England plain or Berlin bordello chic, invariably evoke an Annunciatory pathos. A good many of her interiors are tantamount to ecclesiastical decors, inflected as they are (and indeed as decors often were in East Village walk-ups, circa 1980) by idiosyncratic shrines, santos, votives, crucifixes, and other devotional artifacts bought cheap at neighborhood botanicas. Her various rooms at detox clinics over the years are very much like convent cells, complete with simple cross placed over the cot[.]”

ALL IMAGES OF DANA LAREN GOLDSTIEN’S APARTMENT, AS TAKEN BY DANA LAUREN GOLDSTIEN, VIA THE ARTIST’S BLOG; TEXT TAKEN FROM “GOLDIN’S YEARS” BY LISA LIEBMANN FOR ARTFORUM, OCTOBER 2002