Process Music received Second Place in the “Books/Entire Package” category in the 2023 PRINT Awards. The “standard” version was judged, however, a “customized” version is available on this website with added value concept.
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Process Music in Eye 104
My recent book Process Music is reviewed by Gabriela Matuszyk in the latest issue of Eye magazine. Matuszyk says “The book does a great job in containing core design issues, themes, figures and objects by making them accessible through humour, observational storytelling and self-referential framing. For me, Process Music was energising, a reminder that the process of reading and writing is fundamental to self-reflection, criticism and designing.”
In addition, Rick Poynor discusses the book’s cover concept in context with other self-referential art and design works, in his Critique article, “This is a column.” Of the book’s cover/interior concept, Poynor says, “It would be hard to imagine how any designer could take this concept any further. FitzGerald has succeeded in imbuing a pictureless sequence of critical texts with that all-important, value-adding ‘object quality’ demanded by contemporary buyers.”
Trypophilia at HallSpace
A solo exhibition of my artworks, Trypophilia, was presented at HallSpace, a contemporary fine art gallery in Dorchester, Massachusetts, September 10–October 15, 2022. The show consisted of 36 of my hand-die-cut constructions dating from 2018. The exhibition announcement card image (shown above), is an original digital illustration and not a image of a specific work.
MassArt Auction 2023 and before
My artwork Tape Z (top), sold in this year’s annual MassArt Art Auction, held in April. It was my third successive year of donations and sales, 30-year absence from the event when I wasn’t making art. My sales have raised over $1500 for student scholarship aid and academic program support at my twice-over alma mater. Works that have sold in previous years were Thrift Impression in 2022, and two works in 2021, Refractory and Liquid Color.