Hobo 23 :: Gregory Fitzsimmons

Gregory Fitzsimmons is a trans-disciplinary artist and curator using photographic materials and processes across a range of media to explore and map places and identities based on Buddhist meditation practice and research into theories of conscience. He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, teaches at City Colleges of Chicago.

Using art-making as a spiritual practice becomes a means for me to carve out a place outside of what feels like an increasingly dis-functional and compassionless social system and connecting with others who also want to transcend the cycling trap of interconnected buying-working-marketing-selling. I like to think of my role as an artist as being similar to the role a yogi or a monk might play in an older traditional culture. It’s a practice based in compassion so the sharing of its content and production is a way of- hopefully- teaching or at least giving others a hint about their own attempts to transcend our 24/7 late-capitalist suffering.