Fitzgerald, Colleen

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Colleen Fitzgerald

Land & Sea XVI

Inspired by: Robert Adams, Bulldozed Slash

pigment print

11″ x 14″

2020

‘Land & Sea XVI’, from the photography series ‘Stamina’, is a colorful piece that responds to the black and white print by Adams. Both pieces use film and uniquely showcase distorted trees within the landscape. Adams’ work embraces regrowth and endurance within nature, showcasing a detailed view of the forest in flux. ‘Land & Sea XVI’ uses an experimental process; large format film is bent and sculpted in-camera, resulting in a distorted reimaging of the landscape it pictures, including foliage and trees. Adams’ work whispers of the resilience of nature, and ‘Land & Sea XVI’ also incorporates the endurance of the material of film itself as it is bent and pushed to its limits. The two sheets of sculpted transparency film overlap, creating a new perspective. Both works indicate the intervention and presence of the human hand and gesture, whether on the film itself or directly in the environment.

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Colleen Fitzgerald

night sea

Pigment Print

8″ x 12″

2023

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Family Photo Album Covers

woven pigment prints

12″ x 16″

2023




memory of a memory of a photo of my favorite family vacation

acrylic and pigment print

5″ x 7″

2024




Meaning of Marks

pigment prints and transparency

11″ x 14″

2024




side slipping

wallpaper and framed pigment print

24 x 30 inch wallpaper and 3.75 x 3.75 inch pigment print

2024




Faded, Restored, and Backside (Version 1)

pigment print

8″ x 10″

2024




and to hold

cyanotype

8″ x 10″

2024




Matresence

pigment print and thread

8″ x 8″

2024




hidden histories

pigment print

8″ x 10″

2024





Colleen Fitzgerald

Land & Sea XVI (B)

pigment print

11″ x 14″

2020

Land & Sea XVI (B)’ uses experimental photography to reimagine cliché fall foliage landscapes. The work uses a unique physical process, including an in-camera technique of the artist’s creation. Unexposed sheets of film are cut and folded into 3D shapes before being exposed. The film is developed and then rephotographed on a lightbox. This piece exists in a series that showcases these same two pieces of film from other perspectives, providing multiple perspectives from single exposures. This process reconstructs reality and the material that records reality; It is not a direct representation of the world, but a negotiation of vision.

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