Highpoint Center for Printmaking is pleased to present On Looking, a selection of work by artist Fidencio Fifield-Perez. Including printmaking, painting, and installation, On Looking highlights the ambiguity of boundaries in artistic medium and perception and the experience of immigration, revealing that solace can be found in the in-between.
Cutting & Pruning
Fifield-Perez calls attention to this precarity by creating personal barriers within his work, from photo-realistically painted plants covering his address on immigration documents in his series dacaments to a moiré effect obscuring the text beneath intricate weavings in To Live Not Just Survive or to figures and landscapes masking the details of maps in his installation Surge.
On Looking invites the viewer to delve deeper into different levels of observation, wander between them, and celebrate the undefined. We invite the community to join us for a public opening reception on Friday, September 15th, 2023, from 7 - 9 PM. The artwork will be on display through November 18th, 2023.
Cutting & Pruning by Fidencio Fifield-Perez
About the Artist: Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers on the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self-documents discarded after fulfilling their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and painting are ways to visualize and connect mental landscapes of the past and present.
Fidencio Fifield-Perez received his BFA from Memphis College of Art and an MA & MFA from The University of Iowa. He has exhibited at multiple institutions, including The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the International Print Center New York. He has completed artist residencies at The Studios at MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow, ACRE, Crosstown Arts, and the Galveston Artist Residency, among others. He has been awarded The Eliza Moore Fellowship at Oak Spring Garden Foundation. He is currently one of the inaugural Dr. Harold R. Adams Artist-in-Residence Fellows at The University of Minnesota.