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John Fitzsimmons 
Country Sleep BORN: 1953, New York
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The Long Kegged Bait GROUP EXHIBITIONS, BENEFITS, PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES:Stone Hill Quarry Art Park, installation, Cazenovia, NY, 2007 Arts in Embassies Program, US Embassy, Bangladesh, 2006-2007 Post Modern Reliquary, ha ha ha, City of Syracuse, public commission “Daddy’s Little Girls”, 9 paintings used in Tyler Perry’s film, 2007 New Arts Program, Group Show, Kutztown, Pa, 2006 Projekt30, Group Show, summer, 2006 Syracuse Technology Garden, Group Show, 2006 VAS Group Show, Liverpool, NY 2006 May Memorial Gallery, Group Show, October 2006 The Kirkland Art Center, fundraiser auction, Clinton, NY 2006 The Erie Canal Museum, fundraiser auction, Savanna Du, 2006 Sculpture Space, “Chairity” fundraiser auction, Utica, NY 2006 Adapt CNY, fundraiser auction, Syracuse, NY 2006 Arts in Healthcare, NY, NY 2006 “Postcards from the Edge” Sikkem + Jenkins + Co Gallery, NYC“Minumental”, Group Show, Convergy's Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh, February 07 Artist Lecture, Rome Art Center, Rome NY, 2007 New Arts Program, Group show, Kutztown, Pa, 2007 Apexart, Curatorial Biennial, New York, 2007 Sculpture Space, “Chairity” fundraiser auction, Utica, NY 2007 16x16 Small Works Show, Limestone Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NY 2007 VAS Group Show, Link Gallery, Syracuse NY. 2008 Edgewood Gallery, Syracuse, NY, Figure Show, 2008 “Minumental”, show of small works, Convergy’s Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh, 08 “Postcards from the Edge”, James Cohan Gallery, NY, NY, 2007 Rentanart Gallery, Rochester, NY 2007 WEFD group figure drawing show, Syracuse, NY, 2007 Orange Line Gallery, Syracuse NY, 2008 Portrait, quarterly. paintings used to illustrate Hugh Fox’s Poetry, 2008
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End of the River COLLECTIONS:Various private collections in New York, Ohio, Florida, South Carolina and Paris "My painting explores the space experienced as a “witness to a slice of life”. I gravitate towards the random, the chaotic and the awkward in my painting and I make use of those unresolved tensions. I look for the drama in the quiet and the quiet in the drama, the layers and the light and the feeling that is “the sublime” I work with drawings, onsite painted studies, photographs and memory to construct my paintings. I take what could be considered a random glance of a tree, stream or a patch of ground, and explore its space and light. The negative space is no less important as an object. I am always aware of perspective, my eye level and the horizon, even though that may not be obvious in the tree paintings. Perspective is an aspect of perception and a formalistic element that can organize or confuse a picture plane and is a tool for defining my relationship to the original subject and the painted image. Giotto is the master of skillful but not slavish use of perspective to exert a subtle structure in a multifaceted painting. I paint one or more small studies, for instance a 3 x 16 inch study for a 16 x 80 inch painting. I like working with odd scales and proportions and the low, wide format feels like my natural field of vision. I paint on either stretched canvas or panels, which are two very different painting experiences. The canvas gives and responds to the brush, a hard plywood or Masonite panel resists the brush leaving thinner more transparent paint that I often scratch through to break up or define an edge. I am returning the figure to my paintings, and find that the figure gives a stronger implied narrative, versus the subtle anthropomorphism present in the tree top paintings." John Fitzsimmons |
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