Contact Information
21 Stow Road
Harvard, MA, 01451
e-mail: geoffrey@koetsch.com
Phone and Fax: 978.456.3459
Artist Statement
As I mature my art gets simpler and more direct. My themes require little explanation: desire, death sex, sickness, compassion, spirituality, relationships.
My work combines sculpture, alternative photography, and, occasionally, installation.
It is the human body that is the primary vehicle for my work. I use the body as a tool for knowing (Yoga), formal inquiry, and expression. There is no political agenda; I regard the figures as existential archetypes.
I make my living teaching art history so I have a strong connection to the past: the Mannerists, 15th century North Europeans (Cranach, Bosch), the Symbolists and Expressionists.
My recent work is the art of an artist approaching old age. It is the reconstruction of bits and pieces of my life lived. I think of the Self is a constant reconstruction project and the older I get the more pieces I have to work with. Rather than regarding the art of my old age as a refinement of the inventions of my youth, I make of it a new creation, a synthesis of the physical and mental fragments of my life fused by the electric flashes called thinking.
Living in the present I am always new.