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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED ONE-PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
Pearl Arts Gallery, Stone
Ridge, NY - Eternal Egypt -
Collage and Encaustic, 2008
Wuersch & Gering, New York -
Constructions and Works on
Paper, 2005-2006
LoRiver Arts Gallery, Beacon,
NY - "Astrid Fitzgerald &
Kotani" New Paintings - 2005
Galerie Raubach, St. Gallen,
Switzerland, Constructions and
Works on Paper, 2002
Galerie ...
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Artist Galleries:
The Pearl Arts Gallery, Stone
Ridge, New York
Raubach Galerie, St. Gallen,
Switzerland
Ellen Price, New York, NY
Galerie Schoenenberger,
Kirchberg, Switzerland...
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Artist Reviews:
“These quiet icons,
produced from generation to
generation (Mondrian 50 years
ago, Rothko 30 years ago,
Fitzgerald today), are signs
of an underlying
contemplativeness that will
not settle for being rushed
through a deformed
world....[these works] are
respectful of the world and
its order, respectful of human
consciousness, ready...
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Collections:
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Union Bank of Switzerland, New
York City, 1990; Hyatt Regency
Hotel, Albuquerque, N.M.,
1990;
I.B.M., Atlanta, Ga. 1988;
Kindercare Corporation,
Montgomery, Ala. 1985; I.B.M.,
Marcel Breuer Building, Boca
Raton, Fla., 1985; Ashly Plaza
Hotel, Tampa, Fla., 1985;
Ridgeway Corporation, Atlanta,
Ga., 1984; Coin ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Astrid Fitzgerald
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My artistic work has always been closely aligned with my quest to uncover the nature of reality. The important distinction I make at the outset is that the work will not reflect the mere appearance of nature, but rather its underlying laws.
If there is one common thread in my work, it has to do with a desire to preserve and symbolize the inner order and harmony of an outward world of discord. I have always agreed with Emerson's observation from Nature about this quest. He said, “We must trust the perfection of the creation so far as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy."
For the past twenty-five years, my work has explored philosophical geometry, including the Fibonacci sequence, the Pythagorean Theorem and, most importantly, the Golden Mean proportion, which is a unique ratio preferred by nature as the most fundamental geometry for growth and energy conservation.
This proportion, often found in great architectural designs from the ancient world, including Egypt, provides me with a substructure of infinite possibilities. The Golden Mean rectangle, with the squares, arcs and circles it generates, allows me to express those underlying laws. As a matter of fact, I don’t recall ever starting a painting without some geometric configuration—a simple division, a square, a circle or a grid. The dividing and ordering of the support—be it canvas or paper—gives me a place to stand, so to speak, a scaffold from which to work, watching what wants to express itself.
I have a sense that my life in art has always started with that sense of trust that Emerson speaks about, the sense that my desire to penetrate the surfaces of things by means of artistic expression, will be satisfied by discovering and expressing the mysterious and fundamental order of things. – Astrid Fitzgerald
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