I'll paint on anything.

Johann Fitzgerald began his art career while still in college at Colorado State University, accepting painting commissions to help pay for tuition. After receiving a bachelor of Fine Arts degree and relocating to Los Angeles he exhibited in several galleries. Early paintings were representational cityscapes, landscapes and seascapes inspired by his new surroundings. 

While working at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, he met some of California’s premier artists. William Wiley, George Herms, Robert Heineken, Llyn Foulkes, and Wallace Berman among others inspired him to experiment with found objects and collage. His natural impulses led him to work with mixed materials; metal, plastic and natural pigments.

A move up the coast to Huntington Beach resulted in a painterly progression towards environmental abstractions and eventually to expressive abstraction. 

He moved to San Francisco to supervise projects for Otto Design Group, a company that designs and installs interiors for retail stores using ornamental art. 

He scoured the Bay Area for discarded junk and items gleaned from scrap yards which resulted in finished pieces such as working drinking fountains, furniture, dressing rooms and display fixtures. As a result he started creating his own “usable art” including clocks, desks, chairs and boxes from found objects. 

Now, as an independent artist he combines all of these experiences. Current projects include painting, mixed media, pen and ink washes, graphite and decorative finishes. He's been concentrating on portraiture lately, working to bring human emotions alive on his easel.

johannfitzgerald@gmail.com