Teresita Fernández

Fresh off the success of Fata Morgana, her public art installation at Madison Square Park, Fernández returns to Lehmann Maupin with a series of “interior” landscapes made of concrete, cast bronze and glazed ceramic. Fernández explores the phenomenological relationship between the viewer and nature, and here, “interior” refers to the source of her latest work: internal images of raw malachite, a common ore distinguished by stratified bands of greens. Fernández notes the similarity between these mineral layers and the terrain, most explicitly in a group of large clay reliefs fired with the same kind of colors found in malachite samples. The results evoke majestic river valleys covered in lush foliage.