- Double Dissolve
- Silvered glass cubes
- 96 x 96 inches/243.8 x 243.8 cm
- 2010
- Double Dissolve Installation View
- Private Residence, New York
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, Florida) had her first solo exhibition in 1995 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and since then has regularly exhibited her work worldwide. 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 at the renowned Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan was completed in September 2009. Starfield, Fernández’s installation at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas, was also completed in September 2009. In January 2009, The Blanton Museum of Art unveiled Stacked Waters, a site-specific installation created for the cavernous entrance of the museum. And in 2010, the artist completed a commission for the Angel Building in London, UK. Additional commissions include a special project for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY in 2000 and Bamboo Cinema a project for the Public Art Fund, installed in Madison Square Park, New York, NY in 2001.
Fernández 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.
Teresita Fernandez
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, Florida) had her first solo exhibition in 1995 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and since then has regularly exhibited her work worldwide. 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 at the renowned Benesse Art Site in Naoshima, Japan was completed in September 2009. Starfield, Fernández’s installation at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas, was also completed in September 2009. In January 2009, The Blanton Museum of Art unveiled Stacked Waters, a site-specific installation created for the cavernous entrance of the museum. And in 2010, the artist completed a commission for the Angel Building in London, UK. Additional commissions include a special project for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY in 2000 and Bamboo Cinema a project for the Public Art Fund, installed in Madison Square Park, New York, NY in 2001.
Fernández 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.