Karen Fitzgerald is an American artist based in
New York City[1] best known for working exclusively in the
tondo form.
Career
Fitzgerald's work has been exhibited throughout the
United States including the
University of Arizona, Queens Museum of Art, the Rahr-West Museum, Islip Art Museum, Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of Art Design, Milwaukee Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the
United Nations. Her work is also in the Reinhart Collection of Germany, the Spencer Collection of the
New York Public Library, the Museum of New Art in Detroit, and the Brooklyn Union Gas collection along with other public and private collections[2][3][4] including the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and at the
Princeton University Library in
Princeton, New Jersey. In 2021, her work “The Four Elemental Forces” was part of an exhibit by the Long Island City Arts Connection initiative.[5][6]
In 1995, New York Times critic Pepe Karmel stated "looks back to an earlier epoch when art was not expected to carry the burden of social commentary" about her work.[7] In 2005, Times critic Helen Harrison called Fitzgerald's work "atmospheric, dispensing with all but the most minimal references to tangible reality."[8] In 2020, she was featured in Monk magazine.[9]
Fitzgerald is a master teaching artist and provides arts-in-education consulting services for the education community. The Greenwall Foundation, Queens Community Arts Fund, Women’s Studio Center, and the New York Foundation for the Arts have all supported her with individual artist’s grants.