New Sensations 1.5 by JT Fizgerald
Aldaskeller Wine Co.
289 Gregory St
Oct 2, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

New Sensations 1.5 presents the work from New Sensations in a new format, with additional pieces from the original body of work the first show was pulled from. Rochester, NY-based collage artist and designer JT Fitzgerald builds surreal architectures and hallucinatory objects that walk the line between anxiety and excitement. A self-taught artist, he began cutting, pasting and photocopying imagery in 2018. Drawing from punk collage, psychedelic imagery, subculture zines and skate culture, Fitzgerald combs through archive material for rhythmic combinations that create graphic tensions.

From the artist: “Found imagery is rearranged, stacked and flattened back together as something entirely new. Reduced to monochrome the contents become the relationships between the components. I search for the balance and tension that comes from the images and shapes. The organic stretches and leaps between the seams of the underlying structure, in turn obscured or emphasized by new divisions, textures and layers.”