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Kate Goyette
 
 
About the Artist

The choices we make and the circumstances that contextualize these choices are often repeated, seemingly adding up to form and inform who we think we are and how we function in the world. However, outside of humanist constructs we are at a lost to find an absolute reality, making our lives a relative experience that is potentially both meaningless and meaningful.

I attempt to point to this relativity of existence and to the ways in which humanity gives meaning to life, specifically, when life transforms to death and when death transforms to life. This deconstruction of the self and the world utilizes concepts surrounding language that support relationships among religion, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and nature.

Heavily influenced by my study of Tibetan Buddhism that began with a semester abroad in India, Nepal, and Tibet, I became fascinated by the concepts of existence, death, and consequence within Tibetan culture, and ultimately as a foil to the religion I was brought up in - Catholicism. This comparison led to my supposition that religion is a human-made construct, while simultaneously marveling at the intricate imagery and visual language of various religious and cultural objects.

Through Freud and Lacan, religious imagery and rituals became signifiers. Additionally, numerous links between existentialism and Tibetan Buddhism became apparent as I explored the works of Nietzsche and Camus. Consequently, much of my work is created under the guise of every choice as valid, and in a sense I became the “absurd artist”.

Linked with existentialism and Buddhism, the absurdity of choice is also clear in nature. Each living creature on earth is perfectly designed to survive and function in relation to the creature itself, to other living things, and to its environmental components. Every choice in terms of design has been attempted and then fine-tuned, making the workings of nature a model for my creation as I bring my artwork through various births, lives, deaths, and rebirths.

 
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Fester

2006
Reductive woodcut, aquatint, & hard ground etching
10.5" x 14"

Fester

Untitled

2006
Lithograph with charcoal

Untitled

Accruing Merit/Consequence

2006
charcoal and chalk pastel on paper
24" x25"

Sky Burial/Ashes to Ashes

2007
chalk pastel, oil stick, and oil paint on paper

Sky Burial/Ashes to Ashes

Choice, The Absurd, & Consequence I

2007
cut out pieces of one etching, vellum, mylar, & india ink

Choice, The Absurd, & Consequence I

Choice, The Absurd, & Consequence II

2007
cut out pieces of one etching, Rives BFK, & india ink

Choice, The Absurd, & Consequence II

Fester/After Life

2007
oil stick and oil paint on canvas

Fester/After Life

Accumulate, Fall: Fall, Accumulate

2008
Lithograph with Sharpie, ball point pen, charcoal, & chalk pastel
19 x 28"

Sketch 1

2008
Ball point pen & paper
7 x 4.5"

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

2008
Ball point pen & paper
7 x 4.5"

Sketch 2

Sketch 3

2008
Ball point pen & graphite on paper
4.5 x 7"

Sketch 3

Sketch 4

2008
Ball point pen & Sharpie on paper
4.5 x 7"

Sketch 4

Sketch 5

2008
Ball point pen & Sharpie on paper
4.5 x 7"

Sketch 5

Untitled

2007
india ink, graphite, acrylic and oil paint, charcoal, & gel medium
28 x 31 cm

Untitled

Untitled (page from "Devotional")

2007
etching
5 x 7 cm

Untitled (page from

Untitled (page from "Devotional")

2007
etching
5 x 7 cm

Untitled (page from

Untitled (page from "Devotional")

2007
etching
5 x 7 cm

Untitled (page from

Untitled (page from "Devotional")

2007
etching
5 x 7 cm

Untitled (page from

Transubstantiation

2006
etching
35.5 x 38 cm

Transubstantiation

Transubstantiating

2007
charcoal, graphite, chalk pastel, on a soft ground etching
35.5 x 38 cm

Transubstantiating

Small Protector

2006
charcoal on paper
25 x 25 cm

Milarepa's Cave

2008
india ink & acrylic ink on paper
25 x 28 cm

Milarepa's Cave

Grave's End/Fecundity

2009
india ink & litho crayon on cut-out paper with tissue paper and lithograph
30 x 38 cm

Grave's End/Fecundity
 
Education and biography
Education

MFA in 2007, FA 2-D Massachusetts College of Art & Design

BS in 2005, Studio Art Skidmore College (cum laude with Honors in Art)
Double Minor: Political Science & Art History

Areas of Specialization: Printmaking, Drawing, & Painting

Exhibition Record

2009

A Fresh Approach, Liberty Arts Center, Newport, NH
2008

Infusion: The Exploration of New Work by Emerging and Established New York Artists, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi & John Cipriano, Gallery JAC at 814 Broadway, 4th floor, New York, NY (catalogue)

From Devotional: Selected Prints, Angry Wade’s, Brooklyn, NY

2007

Masters In Painting, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA

Boston Young Contemporaries 2007, 808 Gallery, Boston University

Existence & Consequence: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art & Design (catalogue)

Mash Up, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design

2006

Paper Show, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design

The New Now, chashama 112 gallery, New York, NY (curator & participant)

Midway Show, Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design

Boston Young Contemporaries 2006,808 Gallery, Boston University, Juror:Kiki Smith

2005

MFA Candidate Exhibition, Doran Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
 
 
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