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Joseph Fitzpatrick

American, born 1952

BiographyJoseph Fitzpatrick completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees as an Allen Hite Scholarship Fellow at the University of Louisville, followings study at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, l'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He taught at the University of Louisville; the Columbus College of Art and Design, where he was Chairman of the Fine Arts Division; at the Ohio State University, where he was Coordinator of the Foundation Year Program and at the University of Kentucky, where he was Chairman of the Department of Art. He has had over thirty one-man exhibits at museums, universities and commercial galleries and has been a prize recipient in many invitational and juried exhibits. He was recently awarded an Al Smith Fellowship grant in recognition of artistic excellence by the Kentucky Arts Council.

In the nineteen sixties Fitzpatrick worked in a figurative expressionist style, influenced in part by the painter Lester Johnson who was a visiting artist at the Ohio State University. In the nineteen seventies he returned to the hard-edge, flat Group des Space style which he had followed while a student in Paris but, while of sabbatical leave in New London, working in watercolor, turned to a "pre-style, innocent" representational approach to drawing and painting the landscape for which he is best known today.

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