(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Artist Teresita Fernández – who is renowned for her ability to transform materials and their settings into an enveloping perceptual experience – will discuss her creative process, touching on past work as well as her current MASS MoCA exhibition, As Above So Below, in Club B-10 at MASS MoCA on Thursday, November 20, 2014, at 6pm.

Teresita Fernández’s As Above So Below places the viewer in a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic. She continues her career-long exploration of issues in perception and the construction of the natural world in her largest solo exhibition to date, made up entirely of new works.

Responding to MASS MoCA’s massive and light-filled first-floor galleries, Fernández’s trio of new landscape-informed, large-scale installations embodies this exploration, and is united through the show’s elaborately detailed study of two essential minerals.

Teresita Fernández received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Florida International University in 1990 and her Masters of Fine Art from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992. She is a recipient of the 2005 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Fellowship” and a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in September 2011 to serve on the United States Commission of Fine Arts.

Tickets are free for members and $7 for not-yet-members. A MASS MoCA members’ reception follows the talk at 7pm. Tickets for all events are available through the MASS MoCA box office located on Marshall Street in North Adams, open 11am – 5pm Wednesdays through Mondays; closed Tuesdays through spring 2015. Tickets are also available online here and can also be reserved or charged by phone by calling 413.662.2111 during box office hours.