Public reception:  Thursday,

    January 26, 2012, 6-8pm

  Exhibition curated

   by Karen Fitzgerald

Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 3905 29th Street, viewing 24/7

Space Realty Group Gallery,2909 39th Avenue, viewing M-F 10am-6pm

Both venues are located in Long Island City;  take the N or Q train to the 39th Avenue stop, walk 2 blocks West for both locations.

Language has often been included in visual art.  Artists use titles as a way to suggest what they are thinking about.  Some artists have also built powerful visual vocabularies using language as a basic visual component within the work.  Yet the visual and verbal languages are profoundly different from each other.  How do they affect each other? The work gathered together for this exhibition explores how two distinct languages intersect in the visual arena.  Words bend color and form yet space within these 2-dimensional works also bends our wordy language. The results are as light as air, and as heavy as air most certainly is.

Participating Artists:  Audrey Anastasi, Lisa Breznak, Tony Bruno, Margaret Campbell, Giada Crispiels, Tony Egan, Ayakoh Furukawa, Tony Geiger, Beryl Goldberg, Ellen Grossman, Alejandro Gutierrez, Murray Hochman, Robin Jordan, Carla Lobmier, Ben Louria, Barbara Lubliner, Ann Sgarlata and Mary Vengrofski.

Thank you to both venues

for sponsoring this project!

The Javits Center, NYC, will host a Contemporary Art Fair the third weekend in November.

PLEASE JOIN ME at BOOTH H35

Fair hours:

Friday. November 18 2-7pm; Saturday, November 19, 10am-7pm; Sunday, November 20, 10am-4pm.

The Javits Center is located at 39th Street and 11th Avenue on Manhattan’s West Side.   Visit www.Americanartmarketing.com/promo to register for a discount coupon for your entry ticket.  Input code NYC11PC; 50% off full price.

I will be presenting a gilding demonstration AT MY BOOTH on Saturday at 3pm.  Stop in!

Please join me for the public reception to A Sense of Place on Thursday, October 20 from 6-8pm.  Both venues sponsoring this exhibition program will host the reception: Space Realty Group at 29-09 39th Ave., and Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 39-05 29th St., Long Island City, NY 11101. The exhibition runs through December 27: you can visit it 24/7 at Holiday Inn and M – F, 10-6pm at Space Realty.

The exhibition features 25 artists exploring work that is surprising and inspiring.  A place can be a physical space.   Often, our sense of a place relies on a memory, or a mental imprint of a previous experience.  Emotions provide a sense of place, as do human relations and interactions.  Place is not just a physical idea.  It encompasses the human sense of belonging and being in community or in communion with something.

I am curating this new project, exploring the idea of “Buy Art, Buy Local” in collaboration with local businesses.  Thank you to the excellent, participating artists!  Thank you to Holiday Inn and Space Realty for sponsoring this project.  This is an excellent opportunity to secure contemporary artwork.

Travel directions:  Public transit, take the N or Q train towards Queens.  Exit at 39th Avenue, walk 1 short block West; both venues are on the block between 30th and 29th Streets.

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Save the dates!

Please join me for a very special exhibition and concert at the Great Hall, 12 West 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Greenwich Village, New York, NY 10011.

The project features a gong concert by Gong Master Carl E. Davis, photographs by Amelia Scheffs-Bevington, a nine-year old who passed away in May, 2010 from a brain tumor, and gilded paintings from my new works suite.

The exhibition opens on September 11, 2011

The public reception is Sunday, September 18 from 12:30-2:30pm. 

The Gong Concert will take place in the gallery on Thursday, September 22 from 6-8pm.  No reservations required!

This exhibition runs through October 20.  It is open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 – 4pm.  One exception: the gallery will be closed on Tuesday, September 20, but open on Wednesday, September 21.

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August in the Midwest.  Sunrise is an occasion for awe each day.  Most mornings the hollow below the old white oak was filled with fog, obscuring the early morning deer, the cautious turkey clans.  Once the sun was up, flocks of red-wing blackbirds headed to the breakfast trough – usually the dew-kissed lawn, harboring some delicacy that made them squawk with busy excitement.  One morning the lawn was nearly black with them.  True flockers, they rise together when startled, and fly together when a menu change is offered.  That sound of hundreds of wings beating together, raising black bodies to the sky, recurred throughout the morning.  I could even hear it when they quit the pines across the yard.  I am glad I did not remain long enough to witness their Fall departure, I’m sure it would have made my heart sink to know those voices would be absent for months again.

The land in the Midwest was wet and verdant beyond compare.  My prairie garden surprised me with a sense of towering vegetation.

Elderberries planted last year held their own.  The overpopulated mosquitoes trimmed my work schedule several days running – no amount of insect repellant, voice commands or spiritual pleading could stay their pursuit of healthy blood meals. Two garden denizens were assured strong, fat growth from that food source.  The grass snake I visited with last year greeted me again.  Being fond of the sun, I could always locate him absorbing the green energy.  The other, a huge fox or pine snake totally surprised me.  We met on my last morning in the garden.  The night had been very cool, for reptiles at least.  Just past 8 a.m., I was setting final pavers over newly weeded areas when I happened to glance at the fresh ground against the garden house.  He was curled there, soaking up sun warmth.  He was huge.  Over 6 feet long and the girth of a baseball; after watching him and determining he was who I thought he was, I finally made him move.  It took careful prodding with a very long stick to encourage him to relinquish his spot.

Many thoughts occur about this citizen of the garden.  What would you wonder about if you met such a creature?  Please visit my WordPress section to explore this interesting corner of conversation.

Please join me on Friday, June 24 from 6-8pm for a conversation about contemporary art.

Come away with a new understanding of the profound communication embedded in all works of art.

Visit my WordPress section for a link to RSVP and to register.

About Glamour Gallery announces a group exhibition, Artronomy with a reception Friday, May 6 from 6 – 9 pm.
107-A North Third Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  718.599.3044

www.AboutGlamour.net

The exhibition runs through June 26, 2011.

A crescent moon, lilac perfume.  Who invented the blue skull of the sky?

wondrous way only in the dark?

Please join me as I demonstrate basic gilding techniques. My unprecedented 30% off sale for gilded paintings and oil on canvas work ends on April 30. Time for a visit; stop in!
FRIDAY, April 29, 6:30pm. – 7:30pm.
31-51 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, NY 11106

“Bling” at the Rahway Arts Guild has received a lovely review:

“Among my personal favorites in the exhibit is the Yeni Mao Wu-Tang illuminations and Karen Fitzgerald’s oil and gold creations.”  -Janelle Griffith

http://woodbridge.patch.com/articles/rahway-arts-guild-gets-blinged-out

SAVE THE DATES, Mark your calendar!  Stop in for a visit at my upcoming Tax-Time Artwork Sale:  Friday, April 8, 6-8pm; Saturday, April 9, noon-6pm; Sunday, April 10, 1-5pm.   The event features the work of 3 friends as well as my gilded paintings and oil paintings.  My work is 30% off – with an additional 10% off if you BRING A FRIEND! 

At 3pm on Saturday, I will present a gilding demonstration.  Check it out!

Visit my galleries here: if you see something you like, send me an e-mail; I’ll have it out and ready for you to look at when you stop in.

Buy art, buy local!

An exhibition I co-curated with Florina Sbircea has just opened in Long Island City, Queens, NY.  It features 22 artists and 55 artworks; In the Eye of the Beholder.  The show remains on view through May 25, 2011 at Holiday Inn Manhattan View, 39-05 29th Street (24/7) and Space Realty Group, 29-09 39th Avenue (M-F, 10-6).

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, has long been a implicit understanding in the  process of valuing artwork.  Throughout the 19th century scholars worked to craft a common definition of what beauty is.  It remains a stubborn mystery and a philosophical challenge.  Artists are not deterred.  Using patterning, valuing cast-off detritus; finding beauty in clutter and disarray, these artists craft aesthetics in sometimes abstract, and always multi-dimensional spaces.  Their work is beautiful; you decide how it is.  It’s in your eye.

Images and journalistic commentary are here:

http://www.queensbuzz.com/long-island-city-artists—lica-cms-738