BIO
Carolyn Fitzgerald was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, as one of seven children. She moved to New York City in her early twenties to pursue a career in the culinary arts, where she worked as a chef at numerous restaurants. Carolyn was the owner/chef of Café Limbo, a popular vegetarian restaurant in Cleveland, for six years. At age 38, after being burned in a house fire, Carolyn made decision to follow her passion and become an artist. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY on a scholarship and earned a BFA. Carolyn, who has always "made things," began to work on assemblage art. She also started to paint with a greater interest in three-dimensionality, with each medium merging back and forth. She has age-old crafts such as French polishing, gild, and bookbinding. Carolyn currently lives and in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I believe in the life created within these three-dimensional artistic compositions with the intention of creating an identity, which I trace back to my own life. Some assemblage boxes have a dreamy and gentle character while others reflect a diabolical & fearsome darkness. To depart from the painterly plane and into the inclusion of real objects is an attempt to allow the material to capture the viewer and place them in real life within the artistic expression.
