Caribbean Cosmos

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Artist Teresita Fernández(American, born 1968)American, born 1968

CultureAmerican

Titles

Caribbean Cosmos

Date2022

MediumGlazed ceramic mosaic tiles on three panels

Dimensions72 1/8 × 144 × 1 1/4 in. (183.2 × 365.8 × 3.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2023.266.A-.C

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 314

On view

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Department

Latin American Art

Object Type

MOSAIC

ProvenanceThe artist; [Lehman Maupin, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryCaribbean Cosmos, Lehmann Maupin, London, September 14 - November 5, 2022.
Published References Since the work has recently completed, it has not been published. That said, Teresita Fernández and her work have been published extensively: Adams, Beverly, Teresita Fernández, and Brooke Kamin Rapaport. Fata Morgana. New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2015. Adams, Beverly, and Vanessa Davidson, eds. Order, Chaos, and the Space Between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 2013. Cruz, Amada, and Franklin Sirmans, eds. Teresita Fernández: Elemental. New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2019. Durón, Maximilíano. “Teresita Fernández’s Powerful Art Lays Bare Ongoing Histories of Colonial Violence in the Caribbean.” ARTnews, December 10, 2020. Hickey, Dave. 25 Women: Essays on Their Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Jordan, Eliza. “Teresita Fernández’s Radical Exploration of Landscape.” Whitewall, September 26, 2017. Markonish, Denise, ed. Teresita Fernández: Wayfinding. New York: Del Monico Books/Prestel, 2017. Norr, David Louis, ed. Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape. Zürich: JRP Ringie, 2009. Ostrander, Tobias, ed. On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection. Munich and New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018. Ramos, E. Carmen, ed. Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art. Washington: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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