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Teresita Fernández (born May 12, 1968, Miami, Florida) is an artist best known for her prominent public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Fernández's work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. Her experiential, large-scale works are often inspired by landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references. The artist has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York, since 1997. She is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York City. The artist's work has explored issues in contemporary art related to perception and the fabrication of the natural world. Often her sculptures present spectacular optical illusions and evoke natural phenomena, land formations, and water in its infinite forms. == Early Life & Career == Fernández was born in 1968 in Miami, Florida, to Cuban parents in exile. Her family fled Fidel Castro's regime in July 1959, six months after the Cuban Revolution. As a child, she spent much of her time making things in the atelier of her great aunts and grandmother, all whom had been trained as highly skilled couture seamstresses in Havana, Cuba. Despite her pride of her Cuban heritage, Fernández maintains a strong sense of privacy in regards to her past – in a rare moment of transparency in an interview with The Brooklyn Rail, Fernández states that “as that first generation of Cuban-Americans, we didn’t have the luxury of “messing up.” We were brought up to value education, to work hard, to carry ourselves with a certain formality and solemnity." 〔Sara Roffino (July 15, 2014), (In Conversation: Teresita Fernández with Sara Roffino ) ''Brooklyn Rail''〕 Fernández has said that art was not part of her childhood, but she had space to roam free, while having the spirit of unrestricted thinking and being able to try things and make things, as well as easy and open access to materials. 〔Sara Roffino (July 15, 2014), (In Conversation: Teresita Fernández with Sara Roffino ) ''Brooklyn Rail''〕 “Did we call it art? No. We didn’t call it art. Which is maybe a good thing." 〔Sara Roffino (July 15, 2014), (In Conversation: Teresita Fernández with Sara Roffino ) ''Brooklyn Rail''〕 Fernández cites the landscape of Miami as an important and influential part of her childhood development, where “childhood memories of place, of flatness, of explosive color () formed." 〔Sara Roffino (July 15, 2014), (In Conversation: Teresita Fernández with Sara Roffino ) ''Brooklyn Rail''〕 Fernández graduated from Southwest Miami High School in 1986. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University in 1990, and her Masters of Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992. Fernández currently lives and works in Brooklyn, with a husband and two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teresita Fernández」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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