Barry Fitzgerald
Taking Steps
2018

About the Item

Barry Fitzgerald Medium: Acrylic, enamel, and ink on wood Year: 2018 Size: 24x24x1.25 in Signed by hand Ready to hang COA provided ------------------- Barry Fitzgerald is a multi-disciplinary artist and visual communicator who loves the challenge of making images that engage intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically. He uses metaphorical, narrative, and symbolic concepts to explore portrayals of personal, social and cultural observations. He has been in over 100 juried and invitational exhibitions including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He has received over 140 national and international awards for his work. This year he was selected into 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, a biennial juried book published by Luerzer’s Archive in Vienna, Austria, for a fourth consecutive time. His clients include AARP, Ford, Houge Winery, National Public Radio, Collective Arts Brewing, IBM, New York Times, PepsiCo, Playboy Jazz Festival, Verizon Wireless, among others. Fitzgerald is also a Professor of Illustration at The University of Kansas, and resides in Lawrence, KS. ------------------- Keywords: acrylic, conceptual, collage, design, drawing, enigmatic, graphic, illustration, iconography, ink, instinctive, layered, mixed Media, painting, pictorial, playful, prints, representational, shape, stylized, texture ------------------- Artists Statement My work is driven by the need to discover. It often begins in my sketchbooks, where conscious and subconscious ideas begin to take form. Select compositions and concepts are developed while exploring design possibilities. Texture/pattern relationships, line/shape relationships, and paint application methods have been my current pursuits. My work also explores visual language. Sometimes a specific message is required in the image, and the pursuit is in seeking a different way to express it. Other times, the content of the images direct the conversation and the discovery of the meanings follows. Ultimately, the opportunities within the combinations of visual language and image-making methodologies make for a fertile playground to explore.

Creator:

Barry Fitzgerald (1962, American)

Creation Year:

2018

Dimensions:

Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)

Medium:

Enamel,Acrylic,Ink,Wood

Movement & Style:

Surrealist

Period:

2010-