Karen Fitzgerald

Karen Fitzgerald
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (B.F.A.)
Hunter College (M.F.A.)
Columbia University (M.E.)
OccupationVisual artist
Websitewww.fitzgeraldart.com

Karen Fitzgerald is an American artist based in New York City best known for working exclusively in the tondo form.

Career

Fitzgerald's work has been exhibited throughout the United States including the University of Arizona, Queens Museum of Art, the Rahr-West Museum, Islip Art Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art Design, Milwaukee Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the United Nations. Her work is also in the Reinhart Collection of Germany, the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and the Brooklyn Union Gas collection along with other public and private collections including the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and at the Princeton University Library in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2021, her work “The Four Elemental Forces” was part of an exhibit by the Long Island City Arts Connection initiative.

In 1995, New York Times critic Pepe Karmel stated "looks back to an earlier epoch when art was not expected to carry the burden of social commentary" about her work. In 2005, Times critic Helen Harrison called Fitzgerald's work "atmospheric, dispensing with all but the most minimal references to tangible reality." In 2020, she was featured in Monk magazine.

Fitzgerald is a master teaching artist and provides arts-in-education consulting services for the education community. The Greenwall Foundation, Queens Community Arts Fund, Women’s Studio Center, and the New York Foundation for the Arts have all supported her with individual artist’s grants.

Background

After growing up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, Fitzgerald earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, an MFA from Hunter College, and a Masters of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Fitzgerald resides in Queens, New York.

Selected exhibitions

Selected awards and grants

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Wolff, Benjamin (28 March 2018). "The Rise Of The ARTrepreneur". Forbes. Archived from the original on 14 May 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ↑ Choochan, Gail (22 November 2017). "Artlist: Nov. 23-30". The Free Lance–Star. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2019. duPont Gallery: 'All But Ordinary,' works by Travis Childers and Karen Fitzgerald.
  3. ↑ Lombardi, D. Dominick (12 March 2017). "Tondo, Tondo, Tondo". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  4. ↑ Harrison, Helen A. (8 January 2006). "At Review; With a Little Artistic License". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  5. ↑ Santucci, Christina (22 March 2021). "LIC Partnership Unveils Public Art Installation Called 'LIC is a Galaxy'". Queens Post. Retrieved 12 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑ Gleason, Will (22 March 2021). "These 20 painted planets have been placed all over Long Island City". Time Out. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  7. ↑ Karmel, Pepe (1 September 1995). "Art Review; Depicting the Multiculturalism of Queens". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  8. ↑ Harrison, Helen A. (1 May 2005). "Art Reviews; Hunting in the Wilds of Imagination". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  9. 1 2 Fitzgerald, Karen (16 June 2020). "Full Moon Gilder". Monk. Archived from the original on 24 January 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  10. ↑ Salado, Solana (31 January 2018). "10 Don't-Miss Stops in Pyeongchang, South Korea". Parade. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2019.