Vincent Fitches
The Color of Motion
January 2 - January 23, 2007
Reception:
Thursday January 4, 2007 6-8 PM
Press Release
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.
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