Karen Fitzgerald

“Karen Fitzgerald’s paintings transform matter into cosmic revelations.” - Michaël Amy

Matter and spirit. These two entities have a long history of being deeply intertwined, and for good reason. As we engage with the world around us, we also sense something more than what our eyes can see. What that other dimension is has been the subject of many explorations in verbal language--poetry, philosophy, metaphysics—as well as in the visual language of art. That other dimension is rarely visible. Finding a way to translate that into visual language has been an essential commitment in my work as an artist. A new suite, What the Light Saw is a tribute to the restless shifting of light and energy. The other dimensions, other understandings present in this work are strengthened through the accompanying poetry, and the imagination it calls us to. The work embodies that aspect which carries us to the delineation, and unification between matter and spirit.

For 30 years I have been working exclusively in the tondo form. For as long as I’ve worked on this form, I have felt that it is the right container for what I am saying: roundness is fundamental to my visual thinking. The form is uniquely able to convey an essence of wholene...

Fitzgerald earned an MFA from Hunter College in 1985, and a M.Ed. from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1990.

" A Year of Making Meaning: New additions to the Collection 2020," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, curated by Lauren Wolfer.

“The Adjacent Possible,” Muscarelle Museum of Art, VA, curated by Elizabeth Mead, 2019

Ambassador Kate Byrnes, Skopje, North Macedonia, Department of State, Art in Embassies, delayed to 2021

"What the Light Saw", Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NYC, 2021