Celeste Goyer is a self-taught artist from Northampton, MA, currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Her studio process is loose and exploratory, finding paths through painting, sculpture, assemblage and collage. Often there's an additional stage to creating the image where the original painting or sculpture moves on to function almost as a character in further images, captured by photography. The Studio Captures page includes these images, as well as photos of ephemeral paintings that don't survive the process itself.
Celeste collaborates with the artists of the Wild Orchid Collective in Venice, CA, an interdisciplinary literary and visual arts collective with shifting personnel. Her series 'Many Small Narratives in One Large Story' and "Crone Hair/Cloud" with the poet/photographer Holaday Mason can be seen on the Collaborations page.
She’s interested in social impact efforts that use existing resources and social capital to improve our communities and believes that artists can embody the creative work of renovating our shared metaphors at the heart of all forms of language into more helpful tools to work toward thriving, inclusive communities. She believes with William Blake that ‘What is now proved was once only imagined.’
