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Give Yourselves to the Air To What You Cannot Hold

2020 • 30 x 30" Show size

oil paint with Venetian plaster and 23k gold on Yupo

The title is from a poem by Rilke: it expresses the ineffable dynamic that we are engulfed in. We cannot hold (on to) anything as all things change. This roil is delicious, and though it seems a fool's errand to try to express such a complex thought with plastic form, it seems a perfect fit for my voice. And so this painting urges us to let go, to give ourselves to the ever-changing air.

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Karen Fitzgerald

Karen is a visual artist living and working in NYC. She was raised on a dairy farm in the mid-West and it is this early and close association with the natural world that threads through her work. S... Read more

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