 
While an art student at the University of Utah, Vincent Fitches came to appreciate the importance and challenges of the human figure, and has undertaken challenging experiments with the human body ever since. Fitches employs sharp angles and curves to portray people in unusual, uncomfortable, or awkward positions. His subjects might appear slouching, as in “Front End,” or twisted and restrained, as in “Tied Slave.” Thematically, Fitches work is uncanny and unsettling. Most of his topics, as suggested by both his paintings’ titles and their compositions, focus on weakness, captivity, ugliness. Muted or drab colors, such as grays and taupes, add to Fitches’ sullen atmospheres. Such explorations challenge the viewer to think of human emotions in unusual or unfamiliar ways. In “Inside Out,” for example, Fitches shows us a bold and proud young girl, head raised and juxtaposed beside a tiny butterfly which, much like children themselves, is ordinarily an emblem of peace and passivity. Overall, Fitches’ people are complex yet oddly primitive at the same time, in the sense that they are not idealized, but rather raw, vulnerable, or pure. Fitches’ art consists of mixed media projects, often including oil paint and reversed facsimiles of newspaper words and images transferred via gel adhesive. His work has been displayed in Utah and in his current home city of Syracuse, New York.
The Color of Motion
Reception:
Thursday January 4, 2007 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates:
1/2/2007 - 1/23/2007
Invitation to
Vincent Fitches's exhibition
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Belly Dancer
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
Belly Dancer
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
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Inside Out
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
Inside Out
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
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Tied Slave
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
Tied Slave
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
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Back End
Acrylic on Paper
Limited Edition of 12
29" x 35"
$1500
Back End
Acrylic on Paper
Limited Edition of 12
29" x 35"
$1500
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Life Long Marriage
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
Life Long Marriage
Oil & Mixed Media on Board
24" x 24"
$1560
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Front End
Oil & Acrylic with Mixed Media
24" x 24"
$1560
Front End
Oil & Acrylic with Mixed Media
24" x 24"
$1560
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