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| Self Portrait as Hundertwasser's Ship 2006, black and white print on aluminum, edition of 3 38 x 28.5 inches |
Carlee Fernandez's work, first seen at Platform Gallery's inaugural exhibition in 2004, has consistently involved the transformation and synthesis of two natural objects. Her earlier sculptures, which integrated taxidermic materials with other "natural" objects, transformed the two individual forms into something entirely new and supernatural. In her body of work entitled "Man," Fernandez probes the power, aggressiveness, and macho beauty of the men who have been influential in her life and her art-making through contemporary self-portraiture. By juxtaposing her body next to or entwined with images of masculinity through photographs, video, and sculpture, the work is her dark reconciliation with her envy of "man." Carlee's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US, most recently in "Phantom Sightings" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Link to LACMA Profile) and "Acclimatation," at Villa Arson Art Centre in Nice, France. She lives and works in Los Angeles Still Lives Man
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