"Faster! Faster!" by Patrick Fitzgerald

2024
$1,180 USD
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Dimensions
W: 18.0" D: 1.25" H: 14.0"
Materials
Oil on Canvas
Enamel
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Collection #
CPF071
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$75

This experimental painting entitled “Faster! Faster!” by Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald continues his series of abstract “track paintings,” initially born as the imagined racetracks navigated by his miniature soap-box car sculptures. Each a meandering path that twists and turns in an endless loop, the tracks have taken on a symbolic meaning to Fitzgerald, who describes them as conduits that “allow my imagination to travel along a circuitous path that continues back to a place of origin, similar to my view of life.”

Brushed in a warm palette of peach, crème, brown, and blue, the colorful painting draws upon the exuberance of Japanese pop culture and the esoteric beauty of Indian Tantric paintings, with their mysterious geometric forms that arise from a weathered, earth-toned ground. Oil washes, blurred linework and carefully layered details achieve a wondrous sense of age, as though the multicolor track – despite its futuristic form - appears to us as a lost artifact of the past. Fitzgerald has floated the work within a custom wooden frame, in keeping with the soft colors and textures of the painting.

"Faster! Faster!," 2024
Patrick Fitzgerald (b. 1962)
Oil, silver enamel, graphite and masking tape on linen.

Additional Dimensions:
Visible Painting: 16"W x 12"H x 0.75"D

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Patrick Fitzgerald

b. 1962, Grand Rapids, MI

Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald refers to his body of work as his “Neighborhood of Infinity,” a borrowed term used literally to describe the bounty of materials and creative inspiration he found in the industrial landscapes of his youth. For the last decade, Fitzgerald has been mining his early experiences, re-envisioning the mechanical world of his childhood through the eye of an artist.

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