Pressed Into Time: Ecos de la Memoria
The Art of Sandra C. Fernandez
Pressed Into Time: Ecos de la Memoria by Sandra C. Fernandez
Reception: Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 6 to 8 pm
Exhibition dates: August 3 to 31, 2025
Pressed Into Time: Ecos de la Memoria
For thirty years, I have used printmaking to mark my place in the world and to honor the stories that shaped me. Through this process, I reflect on the journey of migration—its losses, resilience, and quiet acts of rebuilding. Each print holds layers of memory—personal and collective—shaped by displacement, struggle, survival, and the experience of crossing borders both visible and invisible. These are not only histories of the past, but realities that still echo today.
My cultural roots live in the textures of my materials, the symbols I return to, and the voices I lift through each image. Printmaking—with its repetition and pressure—mirrors the forces that shape identity and history.
Pressed Into Time: Ecos de la Memoria is not nostalgia—it is persistence. These prints are echoes that remind us of what we carry, what continues, and what we still hope can change
About Sandra C. Fernandez
Sandra C. Fernandez is an Ecuadorian American artist whose work embodies her multicultural heritage and personal journey, weaving together stories of identity, migration, and resilience. Her multidisciplinary practice spans printmaking, photography, artist’s books, soft sculpture, fiber art, assemblages, and installations. By skillfully combining a wide range of materials—paper, thread, metal, wood, organic elements, and small found objects—she creates pieces that explore themes of displacement, belonging, and hope. Born in New York, raised in Ecuador, and now based in Texas, Sandra channels her rich experiences into evocative works that reflect both the universal and deeply personal aspects of navigating cultural intersections.
Her work is in collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of Woman in the Arts, and The Library of Congress, in Washington DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in NYC; The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach California; The Blanton Museum of Art and the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin Texas; The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) in TX; The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX; The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Cynthia Sears Collection in WA, the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University, The Art Museum of South Texas, the Kohler Art Library, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in France, to name a few. Her work has been exhibited widely, nationally, and internationally, with over 25 solo and 250 group exhibitions.
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