The Artist Project: Teresita Fernández

Artist Teresita Fernández reflects on Precolumbian gold in this episode of The Artist Project.

June 22, 2015

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"We know that this represents greatness, and yet we only have a handful of examples to point to it."

Artist Teresita Fernández reflects on Precolumbian gold in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Teresita Fernández, born in 1968, is an American sculptor and installation artist.

Teresita Fernández (American, born 1968)

Fire, 2005

Silk yarn, steel armature, and epoxy; 96 × 144 in. (243.84 cm x 365.76 cm). The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase (Created in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia) (2007.144.a-b) © Teresita Fernández