Past Exhibition

André Goeritz

Looks Back At You

May 19 – June 23, 2013
Artist Reception: Sunday, May 19, 5 – 7 p.m.

Our presence in a room is immediate, but the room’s relation to our country as a nation, and beyond that, to international relations and cosmic relations, dissolves into a web of ideas and images that reach through our senses only insofar as the symbol systems that report on them are heard or seen. To mistake this vast tangle of ideas for immediate experience is much more fallacious than to accept a dream as an immediate experience. For a dream really is an immediate experience, but the information that we receive about today’s events throughout the world most decidedly are not.

--Kenneth Burke

CB1 Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of André Goeritz, Looks Back At You. Just as Kenneth Burke makes the distinction between direct experience and the idea of an experience, André Goeritz explores similar concepts through painting and sculpture. Combining painting and sculpture to form installations that speak to an overall holistic perspective, while their individual components tell different stories entirely. The exhibition will be on view May 19 – June 23, 2013. A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, May 19, 2013, 5 – 7 p.m.

André Goeritz explores three main areas with his sculptures: the interaction between individual elements and the structures they create, how knowledge and observation is affected by perspective, and the modification of individual elements as they interact with adjacent components to affect overall structures.

Each sculpture begins with a single unit. The angles used to construct each unit are devised to uphold the integrity of larger structures that are the sum of its parts. Many units are placed together, side-by-side, one atop the other, in a building process. Perceived as identical, some of the variables of these units are changed to alter and disrupt otherwise predictable outcomes. The act of layering, building, and constructing with repetitious purpose allude to the perceived solidity and permanence of structures.

André Goeritz’ paintings, while representational, attempt to leave the viewer questioning notions of authenticity, authority, and authorship. Goeritz also pushes the relationship between recognizable imagery with what he calls “topographical abstraction,”—burying imagery within a field of abstraction—topographically disrupting the privilege that perspective and certainty can bring.

André Goeritz is an artist and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2011. Goeritz has an MA in Communication and a BA in Theater Arts from California State University, Los Angeles. His work was recently included in an exhibition The Violent Bear it Away: 12 Artists Respond to Violence at Biola, University. In addition he has exhibited work locally, in group exhibitions at CB1 Gallery, Richard Heller Gallery, and Ann 330 Gallery.

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