Teresita Fernandez

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Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by New York based artist Teresita Fernández. Exhibiting at the gallery for the first time, Fernández is showing new sculptural and site-specific pieces.

With an ongoing series, referred to overall as Nocturnal, Fernández continues to explore graphite as a medium and a subject matter. As reliefs on wood panels treated with graphite, the works burst into the three-dimensional realm with fragments of the raw material combined with a burnished, almost molten layer of polished graphite adhered to the surface. Inspired by the cumulative history of landscape representation, Fernández traces this material to Borrowdale, England, where it was first discovered and mined in the 1500s. The Nocturnal series touches upon both the land art of Smithson's pours as well as the deliberately romantic framing of historic landscape painting. The works function simultaneously as captured views of oddly familiar places and ultimate abstractions. From afar they suggest dark, monochrome minimalist paintings, only to slowly catch the light and reveal their ephemeral, recognizable scenes.

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