出生:
1975
居住地:
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
国籍:
American, Mexican
基金:
APT Los Angeles
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简介
Fausto Fernandez is a mixed media collage artist whose works
include a variety of paintings, public art, and community
engagement projects, through which he explores the relationship of
nature and technology as they intersect with human behavior.
Fernandez’s studio creations are colorful, geometric
mixed-media collages on canvas that depict flowers, tools,
machines, aviation renderings, and image transfers. Materials used
include wallpaper, asphalt, spray paint, acrylic paint and laser
jet transfers. Instructional materials, such as schematics and
blueprints, provide meaning to his work.
Born in El Paso, Texas, and living in Ciudad Juarez in
Chihuahua, Mexico, until age 25, Fausto continued his education by
crossing the border on a regular basis to study at the University
of Texas in El Paso, where he pursued a double major in graphic
design and painting. He completed his BFA degrees in 2001 and in
2002 he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he lived and created art
for over a decade, In 2012 he relocated to Los Angeles for 2.5
years and is currently living in Anthony New Mexico.
Fernandez’s work has been selected for exhibitions at the Gate
Cultural Center in San Pedro, California; McNay Museum of Art in
San Antonio; Akron Museum in Ohio; Mesa Contemporary Arts at
Arizona’s Mesa Arts Center; Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona;
Smithsonian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York; and Art
Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada. His collages are in the
permanent collections at Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona, Phoenix
Art Museum, The Heard Museum, The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center
for the Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso, and The
City of El Paso Museum and Cultural Affairs Department.
Public art works produced by Fausto Fernandez include the
production site-specific artwork at the Scottsdale waterfront in
Arizona, which was commissioned by the city of Scottsdale Public
Art with special participation from the Salt River Project; the
10,000-square- foot terrazzo floor design at the Sky Train Station
at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, commissioned by The City of
Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture using aviation-specific art
funds; a community arts project in San Pedro, California –
partnered with members of the Southwest Regional Council of
Carpenters, as well as pile drivers, bridge dockers, and wharf
builders – a site installation commissioned by Angels Gate Cultural
Center for the Main Gallery; and a permanent installation at the
East Rancho Dominguez Park in East Compton California commissioned
by The LA County Arts Commission Civic Artist Pre-Qualified
List.
Fausto Fernandez was the artist in residence at the Border Art
Residency in La Union, New Mexico in 2014 and is now scheduled to
do a residency at the Martin and Lorraine Kaminsky Residency
program in Miami Florida from October to December 2016.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art