Geoffrey Gatza

Geoffrey Gatza
Kenmore, New York, USA

STATEMENT

My collage work is an exploration of texture, language, and the interplay between material and meaning. Using watercolor-painted paper, cut and arranged on matte boards, I create layered compositions that evoke movement, memory, and emotion. Each piece is an act of both deconstruction and reconstruction—tearing apart and reassembling fragments to form something new.

Poetry is at the heart of my process. Through careful placement of lettering and text within my collages, I seek to merge the visual and the verbal, allowing words to become as much a part of the composition as color and shape. These works exist in the space between the written and the seen, engaging with the rhythm of poetry while embracing the tactile, handmade quality of collage.

Inspired by the physicality of paper, the fluidity of watercolor, and the infinite possibilities of arrangement, my work invites viewers to engage with the tension between chaos and structure, abstraction and narrative. Whether through a single composition or a sequence of images, I aim to create a dialogue between elements.

BIO

Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018), and Self Geofferential (2025).

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in New York City.

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, New York, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza lives in Kenmore, New York.

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