Artist Statement
Since the late nineties to the present, my work has involved the creation of conceptually based sociopolitical and/or religious objects and installations involving plaster castings, photography, and paintings. In my work, I deconstruct and interpret the American ideal of beauty in adult culture. My work also addresses gender roles/gender assignment, the fragility of natural dynamics, bodily violence, and the underlying threads of “identity” that underpin American society. Often times these themes are combined into installations that feature bodily works and the use of everyday, found objects, spray painted and re-contextualized to provide new meanings for myself and viewers. Religion versus nature versus science is often an underlying theme in my work and acts as a means of dealing with personal conflicts on faith and scientific facts, often questioning on where there may be a balance for both.

Currently, I am continuing a series of “Torso” and “Angel Fossil” pieces, further developing the previous ideas above on dealing with the ever-changing roles between men and women in addition to the on going battle between science and nature. In as aspects, my art is a personal war of my thoughts and feelings on society.

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email: njgoth@yahoo.com