Date of Award
Spring 5-14-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Rachel Lachowicz
Second Advisor
Michael Brewster
Third Advisor
David Amico
Rights Information
© 2011 Andre Goeritz
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Abstract
I strive to make objects of no complicity--arranging smaller parts to create larger forms, or allowing the combination of parts to allude to narratives without linearity, foreshadowing, point of entry, point of attack, conflict, context, or catharsis; a state of sustained stillness until equilibrium is no longer a desired result, at which point the parts of the whole can be dismantled, reconfigured, made anew. I think about words, rhythm, inflection, resonance or timbre, vocal dissonance, dismembered disjointed utterances, and repetition--somatic impulses guided by intent. Intention translates into action--an act of will, a willful act, an act of willful intent--a marker of making, solidifying and codifying an abstracted linguistic turn--turned into intentioned form--neither act nor intent as inception of the work, yet both accountable for the resultant iteration. Entropic forces encroach on seemingly stable forms that repeat, upward and outward--the expansion of volume extended in time playing on the senses in a collapsed field. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.
Recommended Citation
Goeritz, Andre M., "Andre Goeritz MFA Thesis Statement" (2011). CGU MFA Theses. Paper 19.
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_mfatheses/19
Link To Artist's Gallery
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/agoeritz_mfate