DW Fitzpatrick (born 1964) is an American artist based in

Williamsburg, Brooklyn Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. It was an independe ...

. Fitzpatrick was born in

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. Their work encompasses

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

and a variety of found objects and images. They reference the idea of a modern flaneur in their work, and makes visual puns on sexuality. Fitzpatrick was a member of the faculty at

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

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/ref> They were also one of the founders of Bellwether Gallery, by which they were later represented. They are currently represented by American Contemporary Gallery in New York City.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzpatrick, DW Living people 1964 births Yale University faculty People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn