Eva Goetz
“Two years ago robots started creeping into my paintings...
In one large painting, a red robot holds a doomsday clock. The painting’s title is ‘Once upon a time there was an Angel, a Gorilla, and a Robot...’ - almost like the beginning of ‘a man walked into a bar joke.” In the painting, I questioned how the three ideas and ideals of Spirit, Technology, and Evolution dance together and how our stories of origin and spirit frame us.
Soon after, I dreamed of a large scale project: Four sets of robots or ‘Bots’ motioned to me. The first signaled with flag language, semaphore, a mariner’s code: HELP. The second flashed STOP in morse code on a monitor it held. Another set of Bots formed patterns with their robot hands, sign language forming the word LISTEN. The last Bot flippantly begged me to THINK as the letters flashed by. The words HELP. STOP. LISTEN. and THINK reverberated within me.
Help from whom? Listen to what? Think... yes the cautionary tale to Think before acting, and Stop... perhaps a call to slow down our development of smart machines. Was this an omen? I couldn’t tell if the Bots were prophets or ambassadors; heralding our demise or our majesty. Would our love affair with technology be our undoing, or lead to miracles?
I woke with a start. And Think A Bot It was born.”
Eva Rose Goetz
Education
MS, Museum Special Education, Bank Street College, New York, NY
BFA, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Selected Awards & Honors
Percent for Art, Yarmouth Middle School, Yarmouth, ME
Finalist, Roswell Museum Grant
Ford Foundation Grant
Visiting Artist, The Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
Guest Lecturer, Union of Maine Visual Artists
Guest Lecturer, Pacha Kucha Maine
Juror for Maine Festival Craft Show
Partnership with Center for Grieving Children, Portland, ME
Selected Solo & Museum Exhibitions
2017
”Canaries in the Coal Mine,” Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
”31 Paintings in 31 Days,” Ocean and D Street Gallery, South Portland, ME
”Animals with Teeth,” Think Tank Gallery, Portland, ME2014
The Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME
Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Portland, ME2011
”Tree,” Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Portland, ME
