Teresita Fernández: Elemental

by Franklin Sirmans and Amada Cruz

Teresita Fern ndez's experiential and luminous works come to life in this monograph that reveals how one of America's most exciting installation artists investigates the intersection of culture and landscape.

Teresita Fern ndez's dazzling large-scale sculptures and installations employ diverse materials--charcoal, ceramics, brass, chrome, aluminum, steel, galena, onyx, wood, graphite, resin, and enamel--with an utterly immersive effect. Accompanying a retrospective of Fern ndez's career, and including images of her most recent installation, this book captures the powerful nature of her work. Photographs of the pieces in their entirety and in exquisite detail illuminate how Fern ndez explores issues of perception, geography, ecology, history, and society. Among the works featured here are Fire, her heartbreaking and haunting ongoing series on the conceptual phenomena of landscape; Autumn (...Nothing Personal), which she created as a participatory space at Harvard University; and As Above, So Below, a series of immersive, interconnected installations that references alchemy and the cosmos. The book also includes essays on Fern ndez's technical and creative processes, as well as on the evolution and thematic strands of her oeuvre.

Published with Phoenix Art Museum

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791358847
• ISBN13: 9783791358840
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Prestel Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 10.5"