“I have always been a visual person from my days in the theater to now. I'm
drawn to the eye-candy of detritus and rust, and I love the history in peeling paint. Intrigued by mystery and contradiction, I look for what lies beneath the surface.”
Cate Goedert earned her MFA at the Goodman School of Drama and spent her youth working in the booming off-Loop Theatre movement in Chicago during the seventies. A member of the St. Nicholas Theatre Company, she served as stage manager, director ,actress, and casting director.
In the late eighties, Goedert went back to school and earned a certificate in addictions counseling at National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois followed by an MS degree in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names College in Oakland, California. She returned to Illinois in 1990 and opened her own practice working with recovering addicts.
Her transition into photography began on a trip to Paris in 1998. With her point-and-shoot camera, she wandered the city taking pictures and these images became the basis for experimentation with Polaroid film and chalk pastels.
In 1999, Goedert attended the Rocky Mountain School of Photography. After a summer of shooting in every imaginable situation, she returned to Chicago and began working as a professional photographer.
Goedert's career in the visual arts has since branched out into additional mediums: “In the last two years, I have begun a serious exploration of other techniques; most particularly mixed media and acrylic painting. As with photography, my work in these mediums is intuitive. I seldom begin with a concept but allow the exploration to determine the flow of a piece. The result, I think, are bodies of work which come together in unexpected ways."
In 2000, she was passing through Santa Fe on a road trip and never left. Her work has been featured several times in the Pasatiempo, the weekly arts magazine published by the Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists and the Eldorado Arts and Crafts Association. From 2005 to 2008, she was an artist-partner at Artistas de Santa Fe Gallery. Her work has been showcased in Santa Fe, Chicago, Seattle, and Little Rock. |
