fitzsimmonsnoelle

eath as a form of change and insists on the human connection to the natural world. Audiences are the only reason an artist makes; however, you are born alone and die alone in your own body. Love, conversation, language, s*x: they're all attempts at a connection in the face of death. A fading smile. A car passenger's face pressed up against the window side, asleep

unveils a dress of autumn leaves falling from your neighbor's tree

when the machine rolls past your line of vision(

A laundry list of necessities comes to mind. Every morning the news reveals a pandemic, war, and projections of

complete and total loss of the environment. I want to linger in the space between life and death. Change could hold its breath in this reality—a pregnant pause asking us to prioritize the natural world as part of our survival. I want us to cling to each other because of the inevitability of change. EDUCATION

-2016 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY: MFA in Fine Arts

-2012 Texas State University, San Marcos, TX: BFA in Drawing

EXHIBITIONS

2018

-BF Artist Film Festival, SET, London, UK (Curator, Beth Fox)

-WOW Art Film and Video Festival, Museo La Neomudejar, Madrid, Spain (Curator, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne)

2017

-Filmideo, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ

-Post Future Journeys, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece (Curator: Eirini Olympiou)

-Personal Distemper, Lone Star Arts District, San Antonio, TX (Curator: Bug Davidson)

2016

-Attempts at Autonomy, YAA Museum, Miami, FL (Curator: Zach Spechler)

-Popular Culture is Where Pedagogy Is, The Hole, New York, NY (Curator: Jasmine Wahi)

2015

-East Austin Studio Tour, Big Medium, Austin, TX

-Bold in Black and White, West Park Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Juror: Katie Curler)

-Sidewalk Trophy, Java Project, Brooklyn, NY (Curator: Dakota Sica)