Teresita Fernandez in ‘From a Whisper to a Scream’ at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Shortly after Teresita Fernandez made this rainbow made of acrylic cubes, she exhibited it with other sculpture to create a beautiful, stylized garden from man-made materials. With water as a theme, Fernandez also showed a swooping waterfall crafted from curving blue and white plastic alongside this rendering of light refracted in mist. (At Lehmann Maupin Gallery’s Lower East Side location through Sept 1st).

Teresita Fernandez, 3:37pm, acrylic, mixed media, 57.48 x 274.8 x .98 inches, 2001.

Teresita Fernandez at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

A horizon line made of charcoal surrounds visitors to Teresita Fernandez’s haunting installation of burnt and burning landscape at Lehmann Maupin Gallery on the Lower East Side. Though Fernandez has explained that she wants to question the reality of the ‘virgin’ landscape described by early European settlers in North America by pointing to existing slash and burn farming methods, this handsome installation tantalizingly offers many interpretations. (On view through May 20th).

Teresita Fernandez, Charred Landscape (America), charcoal, dimensions variable, site specific installation for Lehmann Maupin, New York, 2017. Background: Fire (America) 5, glazed ceramic, 96 x 192 x 1.25 inches, 2017.

 

Teresita Fernandez at Lehmann Maupin Gallery




Inspired by the cave systems of Vinales, Cuba, Teresita Fernandez’s glimmering semi-abstract ceramic mosaic pictures a lush cave interior with the suggestion of human figures in elemental interactions with nature. (At Lehmann Maupin through Dec 31st).

 Teresita Fernandez, Vinales (Subterranean), glazed ceramic, 72 x 144 x 1.5 inches, 2015.


Teresita Fernandez, ‘Fata Morgana’ at Madison Square Park

Titled after mirages that form on the horizon line, Teresita Fernandez’ ‘Fata Morgana’ in Madison Square Park playfully imagines what it would be like to inhabit the mirage. Her sprawling, 500 foot long installation of golden, mirror-polished metal covers the park’s walkways, creating both a dappled pattern on the ground and a through-the-looking-glass effect in the reflective surface overhead. (Through winter ’15-‘16).

Teresita Fernandez, Fata Morgana, Madison Square Park, through winter 2015-16.

Teresita Fernandez at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Teresita Fernandez, 'Untitled,' polycarbonate tubing, dimensions variable, 2012.
Teresita Fernandez, ‘Untitled,’ polycarbonate tubing, dimensions variable, 2012.

Teresita Fernandez created this sculpture on site at Lehmann Maupin’s Lower East Side location this summer, turning thousands of translucent, colored layers of polycarbonate into an installation evoking the lights of the aurora borealis.  (Through October 20th.)