What if my inventory does not contain what you are looking for?
Consider a commission. I create work to your specifications; size, content, color, and within your time frame. I have considerable experience working on commissions including private, commercial and public art projects. The commissioning process is collaborative by its nature. Each collaboration takes its own form. Working with young students at a public school in Queens, we produced work that was, from concept to completion, a hands-on experience. In this type of collaboration, I favor a facilitation process that creates a process where each person’s idea and input is important. Commission pricing follows a similar structure to the work in inventory: size is a basic component in the pricing structure.
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Always in Bloom, a multi-year public collaborative mural organized by CITYarts and produced with students and staff from Urban Assembly for Green Careers High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Animals, 2005, commissioned by the New York City School Construction Authority, PS 239Q, various sizes from 12” – 48”
28 panels total, collaboratively produced with 120 3rd grade students, acrylic and oil on panel. 2 installation views. Collaborating with young students produces a magical, playful result. With careful facilitating and teaching, they are able to record a unique sensibility that displays an innate creativity and thoroughly unique quality to how they see and record their world. Who else would think to put a penguin atop an elephant or a lion surrounded by insects as large as the lion?
Budget, $48,000.
Looking Up, 2006, digital image, 48’ x 33’
mosaic proposal for Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Mural Fellowship, National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, paid fellowship. Budget $200,000.
Discovery of Dreams, 2003, Commissioned by CITYarts, NYC,
28’ x 56’, acrylic on brick. PS 193, Queens, NYC. Collaborative with school community: students provided design input based on poetry study as well as assistance in production. Mary Oliver’s and Richard Lewis’ poems helped them think imaginatively about what they could discovery in their dreams. From their drawings, I created a concept that the whole community examined and approved. Students prepared the wall and painted during all phases of creating the finished mural. Budget, $35,000.
Soaring Circles, 2010, 48’ x 32’, proposal for construction site covering, netting, barge-boards; New York City Economic Development Corporation, production ready proposal.
Budget $15,000.
Sparrow’s Eye, Peacock, Spa, 2002, oil on canvas, 44”, 1 of 14 panels for a collaboration with composer Carl MaultsBy for Eye of the Sparrow; premiered at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Jan. 2003, NYC. Budget, $30,000.
Indiscriminate Dust, 2013, oil with 12k gold on prepared paper, image 28” diameter, overall, 39”x35”, commissioned by The Realty Group for Hudson Yards, $8,000 for a set of 3; 1 of 3.
A Slither of Light, 2013, oil with 12k gold and aluminum on prepared paper, image 28” diameter, overall, 39”x35”, commissioned by The Realty Group for Hudson Yards, $8,000 for a set of 3; 2 of 3.
Testimonial:
I recently purchased a work on paper by Karen Fitzgerald. I was lucky enough to visit her in her studio and be a part of the process. While staying true to her ethereal and magical style she was kind enough to collaborate with me on color, size and medium. Needless to say I was thrilled with the outcome and have my commissioned work of art hanging in a place of honor in my home. I am looking forward to seeing more of Karen’s work in the future.
Private Client