User:JSFarman/sandbox/Carlee Fernandez

“Portiture Now: Staging the Self,” an exhibition of six contemporary Latino artists from the United States organized by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington,

Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Los Angeles County Art Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Carlee Fernandez is an American sculptor and photographer.

urations that challenge the boundaries of singularity and formal distinction by blurring traditional epistemological categories. her ensembles “mix reverence for the natural world with art’s imaginative wildness, trading conceptual places in unexpected ways.” Binary categories such as animal/human, femininity/masculinity, instinctual survival/cultural constraints, beauty/grotesque or death/life are unsettled in works which address, as Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue comments in Art Ltd., “a rhizome of rich ungoverned allusions to many related things: to biology, biography, family, identity and lineage.”

http://artsandculturetx.com/the-nature-of-family/ https://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/2091-carlee-fernandez?tab=PROFILE

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