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Teresita Fernández: Elemental

Institution
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Grant Cycle
Fall 2018
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support

Teresita Fernández:Elemental is the first major traveling exhibition of Teresita Fernández’s formally evocative and conceptually rigorous body of work. Bringing together over fifty installations, monumental sculptures, and paintings from the mid-1990s to the present, the exhibition establishes the Miami-born artist of Cuban descent as one of the most innovative of her generation and one of the most important Latinx artists in the United States. Featured works included Untitled (1997), a mirrored floor sculpture that references voyeurism but encourages self-reflection from those within the structure, and Fire (2005), which uses thousands of hand-dyed silk threads to construct flame patterns that become animated by light and air as viewers move around the sculpture. The exhibition also showcased the artist’s most recent body of work, in which she contrasts the sublime nature of traditional landscapes with the current politically charged climate of the United States. Both Fire (America) 5 (2017) and Charred Landscape (America) (2017) underscore Fernández’s reinterpretation of depictions of the land, presenting a contemporary American landscape marred by violence, climate change, and warring ideologies that stands in stark contrast to the idealized vision of the American dream.


Teresita Fernandez. Borrowed Landscape, 1998. Wood, fabric, oculus light, graphite, and paint. Dimensions variable. Originally commissioned at Artpace, San Antonio, TX. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul
Teresita Fernandez. Drawn Waters (Borrowdale), 2009. Natural and machined graphite on steel armature. 121 x 43 ½ x 86 inches. Installation view: Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, 2009. Collection of the artist. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
Teresita Fernandez. Fire (America) 5, 2017. Glazed ceramic. 96 x 192 x 1¼ inches. Collection Perez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Perez. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
Teresita-Fernandez_Fire (United States of the Americas) 3, 2017/2019
Teresita Fernandez. Golden (Onyx Sky), 2014. Gold chroming and India ink on wood panel. 80 x 64 x 2 inches. Private collection, courtesy Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Teresita Fernandez. Ink Sky 2, 2011 (detail). Anodized aluminum black mirror, hooks, rhodiu plated chains, and galena rocks. 34 x 96 x 132 inches. Installation view: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo: David Wharton.
Teresita Fernandez. Ink Sky 2, 2011. Anodized aluminum black mirror, hooks, rhodium plated chains, and galena rocks. 34 x 96 x 132 inches. Installation view: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo: David Wharton.
Teresita Fernandez. Night Writing (Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai), 2011. Colored and shaped paper pulp with inkjet assembled with mirror. 49 ¼ x 66 inches. Collection of Art Berliner. Courtesy the artist; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul; and Singapor Tyler Print Institute.
Teresita Fernandez. Nishijin SkY, 2014. Silk, polyester, paper, nylon, brass, and aluminum. 74 ¾ x 236 ¼ inches. Made in collaboration with HOSOO, Kyoto, Japan. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo: Noboru Morikawa.
Teresita Fernandez. Rise and Fall #16, 2017. Solid graphite and pencil on wood panel. 8 x 20 x 2 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul. Photo: Matthew Herrmann
Teresita Fernandez. Vina/es (Reclining Nude), 2015. Wakkusu © Concrete, bronze, and malachite. 48 x 64 x 101 inches. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein.
Teresita Fernandez. Vina/es (Subterranean), 2015. Glazed ceramic. 72 x 144 x 1½ inches. Rechler Family. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

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