Tommy Fitzpatrick: Open Source
Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Tommy Fitzpatrick. OPEN SOURCE marks Fitzpatrick鈥檚 sixth solo exhibition at the gallery and demonstrates how our perception of the built environment can evolve over time. These new paintings embrace a greater ambiguity and make them visible in a new and exciting way. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday October 8th, from 5-8 p.m.
Architecture has long been a primary source of inspiration for Tommy Fitzpatrick. He sees architecture as a record of past ideas, and his works present both their ruins and their utopian potential. Until 2020, he worked from models鈥攅ither handmade sculptural forms or forms constructed digitally鈥攖o make his paintings. This contradiction between real and illusion is the terrain he has been exploring for decades.
Fitzpatrick has been exploring a new mode of inspiration with SketchUp, an architectural software that creates "happy accidents" leading to obscure any logical reading of the works. Applying paint using tools rather than traditional brushes 鈥� is also a new process in the studio. He recently stated, "It wasn't until the last two years that I began using non-art tools to paint with. I started using trowels and spatulas, tools that are used for laying concrete. ...those things really opened up painting for me鈥he paintings are becoming singular, and they are illusionistic, but they are more about themselves than they are about portraying something. I'm really letting the paint take over and letting the paint be the first thing you see as opposed to the image."
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Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Tommy Fitzpatrick. OPEN SOURCE marks Fitzpatrick鈥檚 sixth solo exhibition at the gallery and demonstrates how our perception of the built environment can evolve over time. These new paintings embrace a greater ambiguity and make them visible in a new and exciting way. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday October 8th, from 5-8 p.m.
Architecture has long been a primary source of inspiration for Tommy Fitzpatrick. He sees architecture as a record of past ideas, and his works present both their ruins and their utopian potential. Until 2020, he worked from models鈥攅ither handmade sculptural forms or forms constructed digitally鈥攖o make his paintings. This contradiction between real and illusion is the terrain he has been exploring for decades.
Fitzpatrick has been exploring a new mode of inspiration with SketchUp, an architectural software that creates "happy accidents" leading to obscure any logical reading of the works. Applying paint using tools rather than traditional brushes 鈥� is also a new process in the studio. He recently stated, "It wasn't until the last two years that I began using non-art tools to paint with. I started using trowels and spatulas, tools that are used for laying concrete. ...those things really opened up painting for me鈥he paintings are becoming singular, and they are illusionistic, but they are more about themselves than they are about portraying something. I'm really letting the paint take over and letting the paint be the first thing you see as opposed to the image."
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