Joan Fitzsimmons
66 Center St.
Shelton, CT 06484
tel/fax 203.924.8088
jf@joanfitzsimmons.com

My images are an extension of an ongoing investigation into my own perceptions of reality, a concept that I find to be fluctuating and tenuous at best. I fabricate scenes for the photograph that have verisimilitude but small perceptual shifts give them away. I find existing scenes that have an edge of uncertainty. I play with scale, a further manipulation. The black and white image further obfuscates any distinction between the artificial and the organic, rendering one as real as the other.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001 Silver Prints from the Garden, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
1999 The White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, Or
1996 Zone Relay Gallery, The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1987 The 4th Street Photo Gallery, New york, NY
       Artemisa Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Pittsburgh Filmmakers, photography exhibit, Pittsburgh, PA
1981 Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 Weir Farm Visiting Artists, University of Connecticut Stamford Gallery, Stamford, CT
2002 www.anthology-of-art.net,online exhibition initiated by Jochen Gerz, also displayed at
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Home Work/s, The Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Insitute of Chicago, IL
2001 Arts and the Environment: Making the Green,New England Artists’ Trust, Woodstock, VT
1999 100 Years of Photography, Personal Visions of the 20th Century: Art and Technology,
The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
1997 Heaven & Hell, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1996 The Bride’s Invitational, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Detached Retinae: Hearts & Flowers, The Midtown Y Photography Gallery,
The Educational Alliance, NY, NY
1994 Beyond the Camera; Large Scale Manipulated Photographs, Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT
Exquisite Corpse, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1988 Fictitious Truth, Photographs by Tina Barney, Mary Frey, & Joan Fitzsimmons,
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1985 Light From Illumination to Pure Radiance, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1984 The Dog Observed-Photographs 1844-1983, The Dog Museum, of America NY, NY
1983 Dogs, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. IL, traveling exhibit
Collections
The Center for Photography at Woodstock,collection housed at SUNY, New Paltz
The Brooklyn Museum of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
The University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
Various Private Collections