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Tony Fitzpatrick: The City Etchings 1993-2003
Opening Friday, April 27, 7pm - 10pm
Chicago, IL - The Architrouve is proud to present the first public exhibition of Tony Fitzpatrick's The City Etchings 1993-2003, a suite of 30 black and white works featuring a tuxedoed, grinning Foundry Cat, a bellowing Fishman, a harrowing Crack Girl and a stoic Chicago Sailor - the fallen angels, bunko artists and heroes that inhabit Fitzpatrick's real and imagined city.
Opening Night Party
Friday, April 27, 7-10pm
The Architrouve
1433 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
312-563-1033
Hot dogs by Hot Doug's
Beer by Three Floyds Brewing Company
"The best artists merge their vision with the medium best-suited to capture that vision; in capturing a haunting and timeless vision of the city he so loves in The City Etchings, Tony Fitzpatrick exemplifies this axiom. Viewing his marvelous prints in general, and here, with his City Etchings, one understands why Tony Fitzpatrick has chosen this medium to capture the Chicago he once knew, and make it real for all the rest of us. It is gritty yet lyrical. It allows extraordinary shifts of scale and perspective. Born out of intense labor, it rewards intense scrutiny.” - writes Lynne Warren.
Tony Fitzpatrick is an artist, actor and poet. His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is the author of six books including three collections of art and poetry: The Hard Angels (1988), Dirty Boulevard (1998) and Bum Town (2001); a collection of etchings entitled Tony Fitzpatrick: Max and Gaby's Alphabet (2001) and two collections of drawing-collages entitled, The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 1 (2005) and The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City, Volume 2, The Dream City (2006). Tony Fitzpatrick was born in Chicago in 1958 where he lives today with his wife and two children.
Images are available upon request. Please contact Architrouve Director, Tonya Pyatt, at 312-563-1033 for more information. Hours: Wed. through Fri. 10-6 pm Sat. 10-3 pm
Tony Fitzpatrick: The City Etchings 1993-2003
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