Teresita Fernández

New York City

For her fifth solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Teresita Fernández created works that evoke the dramatic and universal experience of looking at the night sky.

The exhibition Night Writing consists of a single, large-scale installation built on site in the soaring double-height space of the Chrystie Street gallery. Made up of thousands of translucent, colored layers of polycarbonate, the hovering form becomes a sculptural painting, filtering the natural light in the space to create a color field reminiscent of the aurora borealis.

Furthermore, Fernández presents a related series of unique prints. Created while in residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, each unique hand-made pulp work in this series is perforated with braille-like patterns that recall constellations. The title of the series, Night Writing, is a reference to „Écriture Nocturne,“ a secret code written in the early 19th century to enable Napoleon’s soldiers to communicate at night, silently and without light.

Lehmann Maupin

September 12th – October 20th, 2012
201 Christy Street
New York, NJ 07660
USA

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