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Midnight Drawing (MD) A5(2), Renata Fernandez

From a series called Midnight Drawings. This is a highly detailed white pitt pencil drawing on black paper. A drawing in negative, an observation of nature's engineering. By doing in negative (white pencil on black paper), I want to make extraordinaire what is conspicuous.

Nl-02, Renata Fernandez

New series of small oil paintings.This is the second one of a new series of small oil paintings that continues to reflect on certain elements of the inhabited landscape I had been working on the last 5 years or so. The drawings and paintings that preceded this new series elaborated on the lush greenery of a tropical urban landscape, while leaving white elements of the surroundings architecture and furniture, using this negative spaces as tools constructing the composition of the image. On this series the compositional negative elements are switched, making the previously luscious green an 'filigrana' of white floating on a given, unplanned background - the canvas are recycled from previous and very old paintings of mine that had been previously scraped.

ATC series, deck chairs, Renata Fernandez

Large format drawing, charcoal on paper, from the coveted series ATC Charcoal. This one is one of the first drawing of the series, and one that introduced an element I am now developing in painting: the Deck Chair Series, the chair as a compositive element, a white shape and a metaphor of desolation, of human presence, witha landscape as a backdrop that is beautiful but looms over the chairs. The first 14 drawings of this series ( there will be 30 of them at the end) were featured as the main work oh my solo show at Museo Alejandro Otero, TROPICO CAMUFLADO (2013-14 Caracas, Venezuela). They have their origin on the camouflage series of paintings that preceded them. The soldiers just disappeared to lead behind a newly found need to observe and decode the landscape They hide into). The plants, tropical, all from the urban jungle of my natal city, Caracas, became a metaphor. They became exercises of zen-like observation, of the growing cycle of nature, and nature's engineering. These drawings, attractive, but also dark and broody, seem to have certain effect on the viewer: sometimes people see faces hiding in them. But there are none, I can assure you.

NL-08, Renata Fernandez

Part of a New series of small and medium format oil paintings.This series continues to reflect on certain elements of the inhabited landscape I had been working on the last 5 years or so. The drawings and paintings that preceded these works elaborated on the lush greenery of a tropical urban landscape, a landscape that could be placed indoors or outdoors, while leaving white elements of the surrounding architecture and furniture, using these negative spaces as tools constructing the composition of the image. On this series the compositional negative elements are switched, making the previously luscious green an white silhouette placed on a given, unplanned background - the canvas are recycled from very old paintings of mine that had been scraped.

ATC series (8)30-04-13, Renata Fernandez

Large format drawing, charcoal on paper, from the coveted series ATC Charcoal. The first 14 drawings of this series ( there will be 30 of them at the end) were featured as the main work oh my solo show at Museo Alejandro Otero, TROPICO CAMUFLADO (2013-14 Caracas, Venezuela). They have their origin on the camouflage series of paintings that preceded them. The soldiers just disappeared to lead behind a newly found need to observe and decode the landscape They hide into). The plants, tropical, all from the urban jungle of my natal city, Caracas, became a metaphor. They became exercises of zen-like observation, of the growing cycle of nature, and nature's engineering. These drawings, attractive, but also dark and broody, seem to have certain effect on the viewer: sometimes people see faces hiding in them. But there are none, I can assure you.