Garrett Zopfi artworks

As an artist I am interested in how communication can express the human condition. I believe that when I make a mark, draw a shape, or sculpt a form, I am not inventing out of nothingness, but responding to shapes, lines, and forms that I have experienced before. I am tapping into a rich history of human experience and perception of the world. I seek to communicate my experience in the world through three-dimensional aggregates that are assemblies of shapes, lines, and forms that I’ve added to my vocabulary through living.

By sculpting these aggregates I am expanding my vocabulary. By sharing my catalogues with others I am expanding their vocabulary and offering insight into my experience, human perception, and celebrating the tactile nature of objects.

Tactility is something that is overlooked and overpowered by visuals. It is an innate pleasure, one of exploration and intense sensation. This is why I’ve chosen to make a selection of my objects available for touch.

As an artist I am also interested in units and unitary construction. I am fascinated with things that are made of parts and how those parts act together to create a whole. In my objects I seek to convey individual units interacting within each aggregate as well as how the aggregates interact with each other in space. In this way I can create and observe a Baroque sense of static and powerful motion in an object as well as in an environment. 

link to PDF of Garrett Zopfi's Document Book (complete Fall semester writings and research)