Tommy Fitzpatrick
In Tommy Fitzpatrick’s newest paintings, containers or structures
split apart and fracture, their walls resting on each other,
mirroring themselves, and angling into the suggestion of other
spaces. While citing architectural forms, Fitzpatrick teases
our sureness of where we are, what we know, and how we see.
What happens if the walls our senses try to describe become
transparent, reflective, or unstable? Fitzpatrick alludes to a
contemporary moment in which even seemingly stable knowledge
is called into question. Sight and perception are at the root of the
artist’s investigations, and he pushes toward a kind of insoluble
discrepancy between the two. Indeed, he wants to provoke visual
doubt. Fitzpatrick writes, “In my paintings, a structural solution is
offered to the spectator, yet, even while one is still looking, even
before the solution can be comprehended, it has already been put
in question.”