NYAB Event - Tony Fitzpatrick "The Other Kind"

Tony Fitzpatrick "The Other Kind"

Pierogi

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Tony Fitzpatrick is a passionate storyteller conveying his tales across multiple media: as a playwright, a stage and film performer, a radio personality, and as a visual artist through his iconic drawing collages and etchings. Pierogi is pleased to present an exhibition of his recent collages in his fifth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Tony crafts each of these relatively small works to hold a world of information: his unique and poetic take on a local legend, a historical figure, a bird, or insect of fascination to him, often overlooked or marginalized subjects. Be it the Trail of Tears and the stories of American Indian tribes and his hero Crazy Horse, his fascination with the cities of Chicago and New Orleans and the state of Ohio, to baseball and, let’s say, the more colorful side of life.

Much of the work in this exhibition developed out of Tony’s interest in biker clubs which embody a notion of the free spirit and the nonconformist backbone of independence. “Central to all the motorcycle clubs...is the idea of the motorcycle as an instrument of freedom. It is the binding object and metaphor—fast, dangerous, and eternal. Like I said...it’s why cowboys got off horses.” (Fitzpatrick, 2013)

Media

• Painting
• Other

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