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Horizons: Madeleine Fitzpatrick

Blunk Space is pleased to announce Horizons, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Madeleine Fitzpatrick. Based in Marshall, California, Fitzpatrick is an Irish-American painter known for images of the human body which blend figuration and abstraction, with a singularly feminist perspective. Beginning in the 1980s, Fitzpatrick combined painterly gestures and deftly evoked body parts; scattered across the canvases, these parts and pieces challenged the standard approach to feminine beauty while offering a new way to experience bodies in spaces.

Conceived as one long series, the new oil-on-paper works in the Horizons series range from abstracted landscapes to hallucinatory dreamscapes, each connected by their shared horizon line and constraint within a minuscule scale. With a palette ranging from soft yellows, pinks, and greens to lustrous deep blacks, Fitzpatrick easily ranges from more explicit bucolic scenes to formal color fields, each precious work in dynamic tension with our human tendency to identify subject and meaning.