V I D E Z
David Fernandez
Nogales, Az.
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I was born in Nogales, on the USA side and I have lived there most of my life. I have shown my work in cities across the U. S. and in Mexico. I have often found people telling me that they understand nothing of art. I don't think they realize that knowledge of art is not as important as an openness to it, because without a recipient there is no art. Through pictures, I reach for a moment of coexistent contemplation with an observer to create more of my work. Because it is in the diffusion of our most reticent ideas where we are most free.
PRESENTLY
2002-2004 I am an active in replenishing the wells of the process by being dedicatedly working closer with people in portraiture painting and building design.
CENICERO
1996-1999 I am an active member of the artist group called TALLER CENICERO, four painters living and working on both sides of the border in Nogales. Each member took his own direction in 2000.
NAHUAL
1995-1997 I first participated in this cultural, bilingual, bimonthly publication as a writer, later on the editorial board. Today I help out on the various aspects hoping to continue to bring the magazine to print.
GALERIA DE PASO
1995-1996 I participated member of this artist collective gallery in Nogales, Sonora, Mex. The project's principle goal was to exhibit the work of local artists and had the participation many local patrons. We organized art exhibitions, poetry readings and music recitals.
LITERARY GROUP
1993-1995 I initiated and participated in an informal literary group of four local writers. We met once a week to critique eachother’s work and share our sources for the possibility of getting published. During this period I published a book of poetry, Opus On All Eres / Ser Ella No Supo, 1993.
PRIOR TO 1993
I studied and wandered.
O N G L A S S
O N C A N V A S
I paint as I do from living on the border. There is a richness in the diversity of the people who travel through, and of those who stay to live here, that would not exist if the wall did not exist. The diversity of the cultures of Mexico mixed with the popular drives of the U.S. blurs the lines marking accepted social norms. The reality is rarely clear on a border. My work is constantly influenced by this fact. Borders create a friction from the different cultures coexisting and this friction, this heat, forges many hidden realities. My work is constantly influenced by life on the border, and it is a confusing life, making my paintings at times spontaneous, at times very measured and thought out, and always alluding to a subterranean reality.
Recent Exhibitions:
June ‘96 Selected by the Arizona Commission on the Arts as one of six artists in the exhibition, "El Arte en la Linea," a two-year traveling exhibition.
August ‘96 The Nahual Poetry Reading and Art Exhibitions: exhibited paintings and read from my poetry.
September ‘96 I participated in the collective exhibition "Viva Mexico," an object art expo, with a glass painting. The exhibition was held at Galeria Amadeus in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mex. as part of the city's 400th anniversary celebration.
November ‘96 I participated with the Cenicero artists in an installation, "Altar de Dia de los Muertos," created for the day of the dead annual celebration in Mexico.
February ‘97 I participated with the Cenicero artists in the collective exhibition, "S. M. L. XL.," in the gallery Casa de las Imagenes in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex.
March ‘97 I participated with Cenicero artists in painting an ephemeral mural to inaugurate the G-Spot in Tucson, Arizona, a visual and performance art space.
April ‘97 "S. M. L. XL." exhibition of Cenicero in La Casa de la Cultura in Nogales, Sonora, Mex.
June ‘97 Participated in the Downtown Saturday Night collective exhibition "Reflections on the Border" in Tucson, Arizona, sponsored by the Tucson Arts District Partnership and the Pima Arts Council.
April ‘98 Participated in a Cenicero exhibition curated by Hector Martinez Arteche at the Galeria del ITSON, in the City of Obregon, Sonora, Mexico.
April ‘98 Participated in an exhibition of recent paintings as a part of the "Sony Artwalk" in San Diego, Ca.
August ‘98 Participate in a Cenicero exhibition curated by Alfred Quiroz (Univ. of Az.) at the Reed Whipple Cultural Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Show inaugurated their 1998-99 season.
February ‘99 I participated in a collective exhibition with four other artists in the "Expressions" show at the Agora Gallery on 560 Broadway, SoHo, NY, NY, 10012.
February ‘02 I participated in
a collective exhibition with other artists in the " " show at Tubac
Center for the Arts, 9 Plaza Road, PO Box 1911 Tubac, AZ 85646