Exhibition

People I Think I Know is a series of drawings, made first in sketchbooks and later colored and further composed digitally, that challenge and examine issues of uniqueness and duplication.  FitzGerald captures people around him, at home and while traveling, and the places they inhabit, both real and imagined.  As he composes the images, often a blend of many drawings, the relationships are consciously ambiguous; FitzGerald collaborates with the viewer, as they supply the rest of the story. 

 

FitzGerald is an associate professor of Art & Design at North Carolina State University’s College of Design as well as the lead researcher for the Advanced Media Lab at COD.  Also an installation artist, he is a member of the EAT Collaborative, whose installation Consumer Culture Garden was featured in Crosscurrents exhibition (2005/6) at the North Carolina Museum of Art and Mint Museum.  Other exhibitions of note include Thrown Light, Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff Canada, 2003); North Carolina Arts Fellowship Show, Weatherspoon Gallery (2000) and North Carolina Biennial Artist’s Exhibition, NCMA (1998).  FitzGerald received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan) in 1987.  

 

People I Think I Know is curated by Sarah Blackmon, gallery manager at Rebus Works.