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Indepth Arts News:
"TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ"
2000-10-07 until 2001-01-14
SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM,
USA United States of America
SITE Santa Fe
presents New York-based artist
TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ in an exhibition of
new works. The
exhibition is organized by SITE Santa Fe
and curated by Louis Grachos, the Director
& Curator of SITE Santa Fe. An exhibition
catalogue specific to her SITE Santa Fe
exhibition and published by SITE Santa Fe,
will be available late fall 2000.
For SITE Santa Fe, Teresita Fernández has
chosen a 5000 square foot space that she
will alter and modify for her new works.
Fernández writes, I am currently developing
a body of work which deals with the
impossibility of wilderness. I am interested
in landscape in terms of exotic place,
extreme place and objectified space. The
concept of wilderness in particular is at the
core of these new worksÐthought as a kind
of place where one loses one1s way, goes
astray and becomes literally bewildered.
But this very notion of wilderness already implies human presence because in fact,
this wandering remains an act of human presence, and the wandering becomes
about finding, choosing, marking sites that are most grand, most extreme, most
exotic.
The SITE Santa Fe exhibition will consist of an entirely new body of work. It will focus
on large-scale sculptural works and wall pieces where, unlike the installations, it is
the viewer who surrounds the individual works. Ms. Fernández elaborates, These
works will incorporate abstracted references to natural phenomena, sites in the
landscape and states of arrest and movement. For example; references to frozen
waterfalls, land formations, and foliage will be used as vehicles for situations that
place the viewer as witness to the objectified site in nature.
Teresita Fernández was born in Miami in 1968 and holds a M.F.A. from Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been exhibited
nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in New York, Miami, Washington,
Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, and Amsterdam, among others. Ms. Fernández has
received fellowships from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, The National
Endowment for the Arts and a Cintas Fellowship. She had a residency in 1998 with
the American Academy in Rome, Italy. This year, she received a Tiffany Foundation
artist grant.
IMAGE:
Teresita
Fernandez
Supernova, 1999
wood, acrylic, scrim, paint
dimensions vary
Installation at UC Berkeley Art Museum
Dec. 5, 1999 - Jan. 30, 2000
Photo Credit: Ben Blackwell
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