Karen Fitzgerald

I have returned from a visit to the Prairie Garden.  Here is a small watercolor (14.5″x12″) of the scrim of trees South of Highway S.

These trees scamper along the South line fence adjacent to the Garden: (14.5″x12″).

While gardening, all three creature varieties visited me. It’s curious and more curious the response I had to each distinct encounter. Visit the WordPress section on this site and read about the bat, the snake and the hummingbird.

Don’t forget: SAVE THE DATES:
September 24  5 – 9 p.m.

September 25  Noon – 6 p.m.

September 26  1 – 5 p.m.

Karen’s September Studio Sale
Check back for more information!

Friends,

Save this weekend, the last in September, 2010:

Friday, September 24, 5 – 9 p.m.

Saturday, September 25, noon – 6 p.m.

Sunday, September 26, 1 – 5 p.m.

I will be presenting a STUDIO SALE during these times.  All small-scale work on paper will be featured and deeply discounted.  With your help, I can reduce the inventory of watercolors, solar etchings, monotypes and published portfolios.  The sale will take place at my studio in Long Island City, NY.  Check back for more details!

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Listen to an interview with Dottie Moore from May 20, 2010.  The interview runs 22 minutes.

Please visit this double-venue exhibition.  Both venues are located in Long Island City at 39th Avenue and 29th Street; they are across the street form each other.  The Holiday Inn Manhattan View has 24/7 viewing hours; Space Realty Group viewing hours are M-F 9 – 6 p.m.   The exhibition is on view through August 25, 2010.

Fire warms and destroys.  Fire can be fearsome when large scale and uncontrolled or comforting and relaxing when tended and small.  Yet it also makes way for new growth.  Certain pinecones cannot release their seed except through the heat of a fire.  Fire embodies primal change – things we cannot control, things we learn to bend with.

Fire is like a dark vein of coal in our psyches.  It has a multitude of meanings, metaphors and symbolic references in our many cultures.  We think of fire as a phenomenon that happens; rarely do we consider that it may have its own voice.

What does fire say when it speaks?  What does it whisper, murmur, shout?  What is fire’s train of thought, its conscious reasoning?  Who does fire speak to, or with, and does it have conversations or shouting matches?  The summer months are often hot, and maybe more so as our climate warms.  Is this the voice of fire   whispering to us?

Fire is what makes everything around us “burn so bright.”  It is literally the fire of the sun, which brings us the structure, and order of life.

The voice of fire speaks to us in dreams; in the hands of a healer who harnesses fire energy to change a broken heart into an open heart.

Participating Artists:    Carl L. R. Clarke • Karen Fitzgerald  •  Paul Johnson •  Leonora Retsas  •  Nancy Rockozy •  Caroline Sun •  Bill Zehngut •  Mary Zehngut

The exhibition was curated by Karen Fitzgerald and Caroline Sun, with expert installation assistance from Mary Zehngut.  Mary also designed the beautiful card.  All artwork is for sale; price list is on site in a binder.  Please contact each artist for additional sale information.

Please join me for the opening reception for Liminal Space, paintings and photographs by Karen Fitzgerald, John Day and Meryl Salzinger.  The exhibition runs from May 24 – September 17, 2010 at Omni Gallery, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., Uniondale, NY  11553.  Located across from the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, the exhibition was curated by Dawn Lee.  The reception will take place on Sunday, June 6, from 3 – 5:00 p.m.  Exhibition hours are from 9 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., M – F.

Liminal Space features 9 new gilded paintings and several paintings that are transitional works. 

Burning Pearl, 24″ diameter, oil with copper ground on panel.

Join me for the opening reception for “COLOR” Thursday, May 27, from 6 – 8 p.m. 192 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor.  The exhibition runs through September 27, 2010 and is open M – F, 9 – 5 p.m.

Check out my new column for Long Island City’s go-to site for community news, business networking, cultural happenings and hot spots for eats and entertainment: http://www.ourlic.com/culture/panorama/

From a recent conversational thread on LinkedIn’s professional fine artists group, I am exploring the idea of “buy art, buy local”.  Stay tuned!Mirror, oil paint with 23k gold and copper gilding on prepared paper.

Sparrow's Eye at Landmark Gallery

In A Sparrow’s Eye
December 22, 2009 – April 15, 2010
Landmark at Eastview Gallery
777 Old Saw Mill River Rd
Tarrytown, NY 10573
Curated by Wendy Kelley

Two 60″ paintings flank the oculus that connects the first and second floors; the exhibition features work from 16″ through 60″ in diameter.

A collection of small works, East and West at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, Inc.
Please join me for the opening reception on Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 6 – 8 p.m. 210 Eleventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. The show inlcudes my work, “Summer Trees.” www.walterwickisergallery.com