Goerlitz Drew

1975, USA
Bildhauer, Sculptor Assistant Professor

ISC International Sculpture Center Student Award Winner 2003, Artist in Residence Programm Winner 2003, Modern Art ­Advising, Zofingen

«...While my residence with Heinz Aeschlimann 2003 I produced many new works containing steel and gussasphalt. After casting 28 gussasphalt sheets I stacked and compressed the sheets between steel creating a life sized sculpture. This combination evokes a feeling of tension and suggests utility...»


Through my sculpture I explore the synthesis of line, negative shape, mass, and stability. I feel my sculpture remains simplistic, although there is a complexity contained within the struggle of weight and balance. This combination evokes a feeling of tension and suggests utility. Each form is tied together by the uncertainty they suggest. This ambiguity is my persistence of privacy.
My industrial appearance is related to my appreciation of technical skills needed to engineer machinery. Though my work is not solely based on machinery, I derive my ideas from stimulating forms within it. This is evident in the execution, and the processes used to create specific forms.
Drew Goerlitz, Upper New York, USA