Kinsey Fitzgerald
Artist Bio:
Kinsey Fitzgerald (b. 1993, U.S.A) is an artist, doula, and educator who recently returned back to Urbana, IL where she now lives and practices. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with her MA in Studio Art (2025) where she focused on drawing and painting. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017 with her BFA in Craft where she concentrated on ceramic sculpture.
Kinsey has two Public Artworks under her belt Native Prairie Roses, 2022 (A special commission from the City of Urbana, funded by Urbana Arts and Culture and private donor, Pat Sammann) as well as, her sculpture Mother and Child, 2020 (The Great ARTdoors, granted by Spurlock Museum, the Urbana Park District, the Champaign Park District, the Urbana Arts and Culture Program, and 40 North) that was inspired her Doula Studies. Her work has been shown domestically, as well as, internationally. It is loved and kept in many private collections around the world.
Artist Statement:
I am an interdisciplinary artist who employs drawing in many forms to explore themes including childhood, womanhood, the self, the body, relationships, memory, grief, hope, and healing. As artists, we know drawing to be an act of observation, seeing, and technically rendering. However, one can draw a bath, draw blood, draw poison out, draw a conclusion. My recent work draws from a variety of media and subjects from art history. I use the figure as a mark, and the body as practice, along with my personal symbology, gestures, and movements to form my visual language.
While my work is centered on expressionist figurative art, I am equally fascinated by the act of creating, viewing the action itself as a type of performance, ritual, dance, and play. Play is the foundation of my practice. I collaborate and dance with the media, listening to its voices and communicating with its history. My explorations are processes of play and observation, sometimes reaching back to my own girlhood. I believe that play is the utmost work of humans, enabling individuals to understand the present moment and metabolize past experiences.
Recently, I have shifted the focus of my explorations to broader art history while continuing to engage with myself as the subject, the artist as subject. I believe that in the act of creating, we usher in our future and in turn simultaneously heal our past. I desire to immerse the viewer in a world imbued with the evocative aroma of a longed-for history and a described future, drawn from the muse’s perspective.
https://www.kinseyfitzgerald.com/
