Patricia Fernández*

Lot #25
Silence/Silencio, 2017
Walnut dye, pencil, oil paint on linen, burnt oak frame
16 x 12.5 x 1.5 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Photo: John Junghun Lee

About the Artwork

Patricia Fernández’s (Headlands Artist in Residence ‘15) works emerge from an interest in history, texture, and time contained within landscape. Carving, rewriting, and painting are all part of Fernández’s practice—labor-intensive actions that speak to intergenerational correspondences and adopted traditions that shift, slip, and alter over a lifetime. In her sculptural works, Fernández has emulated her grandfather’s carving style as an active archival pursuit; this interconnected practice, featuring the repetition of a pervasive “x” motif, is a transmission of memory and history between two people spanning different generations and worlds. Here, with the work’s title quiet in a viewer’s mouth, we consider the manifestation and meaning of silence, the silenced, and the space between. Fernández has had solo exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Holiday Forever, Jackson, WY; Los Angeles Contemporary Archive; Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; and LAXART, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, among other awards and honors.

Retail Value: $4,500