This contemporary artwork features a series of folded pages arranged on a wooden shelf. The pages showcase a collection of abstract shapes and forms, predominantly in earthy tones of beige and tan. The composition emphasizes the interplay of negative space and the sculptural quality of the folded pages, creating a sense of depth and movement. The artist's technique appears to be a thoughtful exploration of the book as a medium, using the simple act of folding to transform the pages into a minimalist, three-dimensional work. This piece likely reflects the artist's interest in the conceptual and material aspects of bookmaking, inviting the viewer to consider the relationship between form, function, and artistic expression. ...
Patricia Fernández merges aspects of portraiture, still life and sculpture in her expansive practice. Geometric patterns, symbols and coordinates are meticulously engraved into wooden surfaces or rendered with oils on linen where this precise imagery meets sensuous washes of colour and spectral depictions of moons, stars or hazy sleeping figures. While exploring the contours of cosmology, references to painters such as Hilma af Klint can be seen in Fernández’s oeuvre, being that she brings together spirituality and science. Working with earthy, organic tones, the artist increasingly incorporates found wood in her pieces—with mahogany, walnut and poplar forming the crux of her sculptures or being utilised as frames for the paintings. Time is a central fascination for the artist, as she thinks through the contrasts and peculiarities between geological time, cosmological time, and humanity’s own construction of time passing. Clocks continually resurface as key iconography within Fernández’s work, as well as lunar cycles as the artist tracks individual, personal rhythms against, circadian, astronomical patterns. All at once deeply personal and spectral, Fernández continues to make work which meditates on some of life’s biggest queries. ...
Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...
