Teresita Fernández: Soil Horizon

Teresita Fernández’s work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders, to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations, and her luminous work poetically challenges ideas about land and landscape by exposing the history of colonization and the inherent violence embedded in how we imagine and define place, and, by extension, one another. Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous other awards. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in renowned institutions nationally and internationally.

Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special projects, biennials, and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. Previous roles include Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial 2023 and Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Glenn is currently a Visiting Curator in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa, organizing Sovereign Futures, and Artistic Director of The Shepherd, a three-and-a-half-acre arts campus part of the newly christened Little Village cultural district in Detroit.