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Carol Strause FitzSimonds
Silver Lily Series: # 33,
engraving, painted chine colle'
with silver leaf,
7" x 7", 2005
Visit my online gallery: www.csfitzsimonds.com
Contact Me: fitzsimjc@juno.com
Artist Statement
"Growing things and growing roots" is the new focus in my life and art.
With my husband's retirement in 2001 from military duty, I have at last
settled in one place...in Portsmouth, Rhode Island overlooking the
Sakonnet River. I noticed while preparing for a solo exhibit at the Providence
Art Club that there was a wonderful unused etching press in the corner
of the painting studio. I lobbied to get a print class reestablished and
ended up teaching it. Because of poor studio ventilation and limited
equipment at the club, I am constantly experimenting with non-solvent
techniques and new materials. This lily series began as a class
demonstration showing drypoint on plastic with painted chine colle.'
This was a major shift from my usual tonal approach and aquatint
technique to one of line, color and surface patina. The subject idea
came from my son's birthday gift that year of dozens of glorious
lilies...what better way to share the memory than through my art?
Carol's aquatint technique was featured in the October 1999 issue of
The Artist's Magazine. Collections containing her prints include: the
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the United States
Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the
Newport Art Museum, and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at
Rutgers University. She is listed in Biographical Encyclopedia of American
Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U.S., Colonial to 2002; The Best
of Printmaking, An International Collection; and Who's Who in American
Art.
Selected Exhibitions
2005 58th American Color Print Society National Exhibition, Stella Drakin
Fourth Prize, PA
2005 90th Anniversary Show Society of American Graphic Artists, Art Students
League of New York, NY
2005 59th Member Show, American Color Print Society, Bryn Mawr, PA
2005 Copley Society of Art Spring Juried Members Exhibit, Boston, MA
2005 Contemporary Highlights: 21st Century Acquisitions to Permanent
Collection, Newport Art Museum, RI
2004 Traveling the Carolinas, Juried National Association of Women Artists
Exhibition
2004 Social Issues Juried Print Exhibit Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, MA
2004 Printed Image, Attleboro Museum, MA
2004 70th Society of American Graphic Artists National Members' Small Print
Exhibit, New York, NY
2004 17th Parkside National Juried Small Print Exhibition, University of
Wisconsin
2003 16th Parkside National Juried Small Print Exhibition, University of
Wisconsin
2003 Copley Printmakers, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA
2003 61st Audubon Artists Inc. Annual Exhibition, The Art Times Award, NY
2002 American Artists Professional League Grand National Exhibition,
Honorable Mention Graphics, NY
2000 23rd National Juried Print Biennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New
Canaan, CT
2000 By Virtue of Excellence Juried Exhibition, Newport Art Museum, RI
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