Site

Site, a solo exhibition by painter Tommy Fitzpatrick, features new works in his 25-year exploration of structural space and color. The artist takes architecture as his inspiration, constructing painted forms that straddle sculpture, still life, and abstraction. His work demonstrates how our perception of the built environment can evolve. Site marks an evolution in Fitzpatrick’s practice, moving away from painting from life or photographs toward the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, a program typically used by architects. For this exhibition, he modeled his works in virtual, diagrammatic space using CAD, which he then translated onto canvas. The artist sees architecture as a record or memory of past ideas, and his paintings present both their ruins and their utopian potential. His latest paintings take this idea to a new level, embracing a greater ambiguity in the representation of his subjects. Lines and shapes have begun to form abstracted roofs and windows, and in painting structures that no longer exist or have changed over time, the artist makes them visible in new and exciting ways.