INSIGHT Art Talk | Barry Fitzgerald

Join us for an evening with artist Barry Fitzgerald as he discusses his current solo exhibition, Half & Half!

Barry Fitzgerald is a multi-disciplinary artist and visual communicator who loves the challenge of making images that engage intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically. He uses metaphorical, narrative, and symbolic concepts to explore personal, social, and cultural observations.

He has been in over 160 juried and invitational exhibitions, including shows in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He has received over 150 national and international awards for his work, including The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication Arts, 3X3 International Illustration, and was selected four times into 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, a biennial juried book published by Luerzer’s Archive in Vienna, Austria.

His clients include AARP, Ford, Houge Winery, National Public Radio, Collective Arts Brewing, IBM, New York Times, PepsiCo, Playboy Jazz Festival, and Verizon Wireless, among others.

Fitzgerald is a Professor of Illustration and the director of the Illustration & Animation program at The University of Kansas, where he has been teaching illustration, drawing, painting, and conceptual problem-solving since 1993.