Savoir Faire, 2021, flashe, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 18"x14"x8"
Krispy Kreme, 2019, gouache, watercolor, Awagami handmade paper, 20.5"x17"
Brain Freeze, 2021, flashe, gouache, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 12"x8"x6"
Push Pop, 2022, flashe, gouache spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, metal tripod, 22"x34"x27"
Mother's Milk, 2021, metallic paint, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 46"x35"x15"
Lava Lick, 2022, flashe, gouache, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 8"x9"x6"
Nomenom, 2021, flashe, gouache, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 8"x9"x5"
Fokus, 2019, gouache, watercolor, Awagami handmade paper, 38.5"x25.5"
Blue Lemonade, 2022, flashe, gouache, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 22"x18"x10"
Sherburst, 2021, flashe, gouache, spray paint, plaster wrap, wire mesh, pre-stretched canvas, 8"x9"x6"
Brain Freeze
Gail Fitzgerald
January 15 - February 25, 2022
Gail Fitzgerald’s solo presentation “Brain Freeze” consists of amorphous multicolored masses and gouache watercolors. The brightly colored rock-like formations are named after vape flavors. With titles like “Mother’s Milk” (2021), “Lava Lick”(2022), and “Blue Lemonade” (2022), Fitzgerald conveys that Art functions as a form of ingestion. Her titles also reference that the abstract language in the work is born out of more than formal concerns. Fitzgerald’s gouache watercolors on handmade paper live harmoniously with the sculptural wall works. So much so, that some of the sculptural works look like they have jumped out of Fitzgerald’s colorful marks on paper to exist as three-dimensional forms. The only off the wall work titled “Push Pop” (2022) is a nod to a previous body of work by Fitzgerald where she placed blob-like masses atop metal music stands. Here she uses a yellow metal tripod to hold up one of her multicolored forms.
Gail Fitzgerald (b. 1962 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an artist and professor living in Ithaca, NY. After earning a BFA from MassArt in 1985 she moved to New York's Lower East Side where she connected with the confluence of artists and musicians who presided over the denouement of the East Village art scene. She had her first solo show at Bess Cutler Gallery in 1989 and has participated in group and solo exhibitions at Bill Arning Exhibitions, Randy Alexander, Julian Pretto, Blum Helman, José Freire, and Carroll and Sons galleries. Her most recent solo exhibition, Pop Rocks, was held at Neighbors Gallery in 2021. Other exhibitions include: Calling Occupants At the DeKalb Gallery at Pratt, Locally Sourced, at the Johnson Art Museum and Relativity Suite at the Pitch Project. Fitzgerald's work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Art in America, and Arts Magazine. She has taught at The Cooper Union, Caldwell University and Cornell University.