Teresita Fernandez

April 15 - May 14, 2005
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of new work by Teresita Fernandez. This will be Fernandez's second solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

Evident in her multi-layered drawings, glass cube wall pieces and sculpture Teresita Fernandez gives form to natural phenomena. By breaking these down to their essential elements Fernandez presents an exhibition of minimal work, which evokes smoke and fire. On exhibit will be a large "ring of fire" constructed from thousands of silk threads from Scalamandre. Produced during her residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, these layers of richly colored threads are held taught between two rings and suspended from the ceiling creating a unique optical illusion of transparency and dense color.

Fernandez has had solo exhibitions at Site Santa Fe, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., and Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy. She will also have solo exhibitions at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga in Spain later this Spring. Teresita Fernandez is the recipient of numerous awards and was commissioned for a special project by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is the youngest artist commissioned by the Seattle Art Museum for the Olympic Sculpture Park. Here she has designed a covered glass bridge titled Seattle Cloud Cover where visitors will be allowed to walk through and see the sky and cityscape change through tiny holes in the colored glass.

For further information or to view images, please visit www.lehmannmaupin.com and click on Upcoming or contact us at info@lehmannmaupin.com.

Artists in this exhibition

• Teresita Fernández

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Exhibition Works

Fire, 2005 silk yarn, steel armature, epoxy 96 x 144 diameter inches 243.8 x 365.8 cm In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia LM8520


Eruption (Large), 2005 aluminum, glass beads, wood, vinyl 4 x 96 x 120 inches 10.2 x 243.8 x 304.8 cm LM8692


Eruption (Small), 2005 aluminum, glass beads, wood, vinyl 4 x 96 x 48 inches 10.2 x 243.8 x 121.9 cm LM8693


Sfumato, 2005 glass cubes approx. 84 x 84 inches 213.4 x 213.4 cm Edition of 3 LM8694


Smoke (Violet), 2005 mixed media on wood 6 panels, each: 31.5 x 40 x .875 inches 80 x 101.6 x 2.2 cm LM8684


Smoke (Heavy), 2005 mixed media on wood 6 panels, each: 37 x 48.5 x .875 inches 94 x 123.2 x 2.2 cm LM8685


Smoke (Anvil), 2005 mixed media on wood 6 panels, each: 31.5 x 40 x .875 inches 80 x 101.6 x 2.2 cm LM8686