Ana Teresa Fernandez | Pressing Matters
June 28 - July 28, 2007
Reception: Saturday, June 30, 2007, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Artist Biography
Growing up in Mexico, Ana Teresa Fernandez learned at an early age about the double standards imposed on women and their sexuality. Through performance-based paintings, Fernandez explores the territories that encompass these different boundaries and stereotypes: physical, emotional, and psychological.
Fernandez subverts the typical folkloric representations of Mexican women by changing the protagonist's uniform to the quintessential little black dress, a symbol of American prosperity and femininity and of the Mexican tradition of wearing black for a year after a death. Her paintings portray actual performances where Fernandez takes on the Sisyphean task of cleaning the environment - sweeping sand on a beach, vacuuming a dirt road - to accentuate the idea of disposable labor resources.
Ana Teresa Fernandez received her Masters of Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Press 1
(Performance Documentation)2006
Oil on Canvas
48 x 72" |
Press 2 (Performance Documentation), 2006
Oil on Canvas
48 x 72", sold |
Teresa en Èxtasis (Performance Documentation), 2005, Oil on canvas;
36 x 42" |
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To Press 1 (Performance Documentation), 2007
Oil on canvas
6 x 8 x 1 1/2" |
To Press 2 (Performance Documentation), 2007
Oil on canvas
6 x 8 x 1 1/5", sold
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To Press 3 (Performance Documentation), 2007
Oil on canvas
6 x 8 x 1 1/2" |
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No Puedo Pasar (Performance Documentation), 2005, Oil on canvas
60
x 72" |
Untitled 1 (Performance Documentation), 2007, Oil on canvas; 64 x 72" |
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Ménage à Trois (Performance Documentation)
2005
Oil on canvas
24
x 36", sold |
Untitled 2 (Performance Documentation), 2006, Oil on canvas; 36 x 62" |
Untitled 3 (Performance Documentation), 2006, Oil on canvas; 30 x 40" |
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| photo credits: Chad Arnholt |
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