Visitors enjoy the 2011 MFA Graduate Exhibition at the Winery SF on Treasure Island.
Graduate Lecture Series
Jake Fernandez
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 4:30pm
Lecture Hall
San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA |
Time, perception, chance, arbitrary selection, and fixed frameworks are fundamental elements in Jake Fernandez’s work in photography, collage, sculpture, film, and painting. The works appear abstract but are in fact “realistic” representations in a diagrammatic mode of mental schema and the logic of the constitution of its parts. Such compositions create a faithful mimesis of a mental, rather than visual, landscape.
Fernandez has exhibited at ACA Galleries, New York; Peter Marcelle Contemporary, New York; and Hammer Galleries, New York, among other venues. His work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition, Jake Fernandez: The Ethereal Journeyman, at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2001. Fernandez’s work is collected by major national institutions and corporations; it was recently acquired by the state of Florida to be held in the collection of the Contemporary Art Museum at the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Image:
Perpetual Frieze
1984–Present (Ongoing)
Cibachrome photo fragments (Photographs taken in New York City’s Lower East Side and in the barrios of Miami)
10 x 182 inches
(Detail)
