Art Review: Eva Goetz, Think A Bot It

BY CARL LITTLE, ART NEW ENGLAND

Eva Goetz, Illumination: The Goddess Appears, 2018, acrylic gouache on canvas, 16 x 16″. Photo by Ben Clay.

In a self-reflective piece published in the Union of Maine Visual Artists’ online Maine Arts Quarterly last year, Portland-based artist Eva Goetz described her transition from making paintings that evoked some of the horrors and tragedies of the world—the kidnapping of girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria, the murder of churchgoers in Charleston—to a series called Animals with Teeth. The new series bore witness and acknowledged “upheaval, chaos and war in a new context” that Goetz hoped might help change the world. “I was baring my teeth against injustice and celebrating joy at the same time,” she wrote.

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