"Rock-Ola Car" by Patrick Fitzgerald

2019

$680 SOLD

Dimensions

W: 11.75" D: 5.25" H: 5.5"

Materials

Materials
Paper
Paint
Wood

Collection #

CPF018

Estimated Shipping

$25

To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Working from found materials, Fitzgerald constructs miniature soap box cars and the branded attire of their imagined drivers. Born from a fascination with the soap box derby cars of his youth, Fitzgerald builds each car with found materials collected over the years, layered with personal memories and keepsakes from the past. The most minute of details is always intentional – from the weathered finishes to the fictitious industrial sponsors to the miniaturized furnishings of the cramped interiors.

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Patrick Fitzgerald

b. 1962, Grand Rapids, MI

Chicago artist Patrick Fitzgerald refers to his body of work as his “Neighborhood of Infinity,” a borrowed term used literally to describe the bounty of materials and creative inspiration he found in the industrial landscapes of his youth. For the last decade, Fitzgerald has been mining his early experiences, re-envisioning the mechanical world of his childhood through the eye of an artist.