Artist Spotlight

Teresita Fernandez:

Teresita Fernández was born in 1968 in Miami, Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions internationally and abroad at sites including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; the Witte de With in Rotterdam; and the Miami Art Museum, Florida. She was featured in Outer City, Inner Space: Teresita Fernández, Stephen Hendee, and Ester Partegas at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in 2002. In August 2009 a show of Fernandez's recent work, Blind Landscape, opened at the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida in Tampa. This exhibition will then travel to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX. Fernández is the youngest artist commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, where her work Seattle Cloud Cover allows visitors to walk through a covered skyway while viewing the city's skyline through tiny holes in multicolored glass. Her new site-specific commission Blind Blue Landscape will be on view from September 2009 at the renowned Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan. In January 2009, The Blanton Museum of Art unveiled Stacked Waters, a site-specific installation created for the cavernous entrance of the museum. Starfield, Fernández's installation at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas, is on view from September 2009. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards both in the U.S. and abroad, including the 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, and she has had residencies in Japan, Italy, and at ArtPace in San Antonio. She was commissioned for special projects by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2000, and by the Public Art Fund in 2001. Her work is included in numerous major private collections as well as the permanent collections of the St. Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Miami Art Museum, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Sammlung Goetz, and Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Fernández had her first solo exhibition in 1995 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and regularly exhibits work worldwide.

The work of this artist is one level that I strive for. Her contemporary modern pieces are so striking in their use of the world around us, that it takes the worlds beauty to make her pieces show. Her art is visual, and interactive, stunningly beautiful and so simple.

I only hope that one day I can be so creative as she.

Self Portrait

March 21st, 2009 I was watching a video by the talented Nathan Wyburn (a 19 year old from Wales) working on a self portrait on himself on a large scale. His video inspired me to do a self portrait of myself measuring 6 feet in hight by 4 feet in length. I sadly do not have a video of my work but I have images that document my progress.

I started from the very beginning of graphing my image and laying out my paper at 3:00 pm and finished about 8 hours later. My entire image was done in one sitting.

Behold, My beauty!

Bubble Walls

I have always been bored with the walls of my living room. The owners of the home before us had painted them brown. Brown like chocolate milk as some of my friends say, I say brown like a baby who ate roses then shat it out. Needless to say I really do no like my wall colors.

And well as I own my home, I have the creative right to do what I want to it. Late one February night I was bored as usual but wanted to paint. The owners left some of the house paint behind so we might touch up the walls should be need to. After digging out some white high gloss and some paint brushes, pulling all the furniture away from the walls I got started.

BUBBLES! Dripping Bubbles to be exact. I free handed the bubbles onto the wall to create a more organic look and allowed the paint to drip down the walls. The drips hold little pools of paint on the bottom when they are dried so when I do paint the living room that beautiful rich light green, I will have to go around with a blade and cut off those nubs.

But it allowed me to exercise a little of my creative freedom.

Crafting News

Well it seems that some of my muse has come back and I am in the middle of a creative overhaul changing my style and well, becoming the artist that I have always wanted to be.

I am going to be trying to post everything that I am making, working on, inspired to create and blog about the process and where the inspiration came from and how to do the craft your self.

Because I am coming into this with projects already underway and some finished, I will be going back in time to show you some of the things I started to work on and have finished recently. Then once those are posted we can move onto the current musings and new creative endeavors.

Cancer Free

I just got back from the Endocrinologist and after my Biopsy two weeks ago, they said that everything is clear. Doctors statement: "Unfortunately there is no way we will be able to know if this will always be cancer free.... oh wait, this is your third biopsy, never mind, you will almost definitely be cancer free with this nodule."

Hurrah! I get to keep my Thyroid! I am somewhat partial to it, it has given my a stable mood and metabolism, I do not want to loose that or have to take medication for the rest of my life. I am only 21.

So good news for me!