Robert Fernandez

  • New and Forthcoming
  • Current Projects: Shows
    • Dark Corals [2025-] [In Progress]
    • Sunflowers [2023-] [In Progress]
    • Suns and Dragons [2017-2024]
    • Torch [2023]
    • Culebras [2023]
    • (S)HELLS [2022 & 2025]
    • After the Flood [2022]
    • Sphinx [2022]
    • Orpheus [2022]
    • Valleys and Fans [2021]
    • Venus [2021]
    • Love [2019-2021]
    • Geswork [2018-2021]
  • Current Projects: Books
    • Recovery [Poems]
    • Transitions: Poems 2011-2020
    • Nocturne: Selected Poems by José Asunción Silva
  • Paintings
    • Paintings 2025
    • Paintings 2024
    • Paintings 2023
    • Paintings 2022
    • Paintings 2021
    • Selected Paintings ≤2020
  • Art Books
    • blood / seeps / through / the windows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wormwood [8.1X6in] [2020]
    • Broken Bottle [9X5.5in] [2020]
    • Coronation [12X9in] [2020]
    • Transfer of Violence [18X24in] [2020]
    • Toro Oro Boro [6X12in] [2019]
    • Rintrah Roars [8.75X5.75in] [2019]
    • Judgement Day [8X5.5in] [2019]
    • Book of the Blue Knight [4.375X1.375in] [2018]
    • Traité de Petit Tactiques [12.5X10.75in] [2017]
    • Scratch 272 [10.5X8in] [2017]
    • Toba [8.5X6in] [2017]
    • Las Difícils [2017]
    • Symposium [5X3 inches] [2017]
    • Grand Grimoire [12.5X10.75in] [2016]
    • Dumbbell [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Pele [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Diablo [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Petit Grimoire [5X4.5in] [2016]
    • It Was Like France [6X4in] [2016]
    • Colombian Gold [2015]
    • Pearls Before Swine [2012]
  • Object Sequences
    • Everything in Its Right Place [2023]
    • Andenken [12.5X14in] [2020]
    • Minotaur [2017]
    • Herr Lindworm [2017]
    • De Profundis [2017]
    • The Time of the Assassins [2016]
    • Let the Crushed Bones Rejoice [2016]
    • Like Some Boys [2016]
    • Like Some Boys (Alternates) [2016]
    • Savonarola [2016]
    • Antigone [2016]
    • Faust [2016]
    • Sappho's Busted Smile [2016]
    • Super Bubble (after Mallarmé) [2016]
  • Drawings
    • Amore [44X72in] [2025]
    • Lonely Sunsets [24X18in] [2025]
    • Coral Picasso (Interleaf) [12.5X10.75 & 12X14in] [2025]
    • Conchita [30X22in] [2025]
    • Poet [2023]
    • Faust [2.6X1.5in] [2023]
    • Culebras (la Florida) [11X15in] [2022]
    • Spring Break [3X5in] [2022]
    • Sakutarō Waltz [18X24in] [2022]
    • Primeval Glory (Paper) [12X18in] [2022]
    • Venus (Sketches) [5X3in] [2021]
    • Valleys of Neptune [2021]
    • Jirafa [2021]
    • Things Fall Apart [18X12in] [2021]
    • Antigòn [18X24in] [2021]
    • Brujaha [18X24in] [2021]
    • Dracula [18X24in] [2021]
    • Don Juan [18X24in] [2021]
    • Beach Bums [12X9in] [2021]
    • Hippies [18X24in] [2021]
    • D. [2021]
    • Heartbreak Hotel [4.375X1.375in] [2021]
    • Transition (Manatee ↔ Dracula) [24X18in] [2021]
    • Draculas [24X18in] [2021]
    • Toro [12X18in] [2020]
    • The Infinite [2020]
    • Children of the Revolution [24X18in] [2021]
    • Ouroboros [24X18in] [2020]
    • Mercury [18X12in] [2020]
    • Culebras [11X15n] [2018-2020]
    • Blazing Furnace (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) [18X12in] [2020]
    • Desert Alchemy [12X18in] [2020]
    • Lorca [9X12in] [2020]
    • Babel [100X45in] [2020]
    • Knights of the Round Table [~8'X18in] [2020]
    • Onda [11X15in] [2020]
    • Shut the Window [11X8.5in] [2020]
    • La Familia [12X18in] [2020]
    • Ark [11X15in]
    • Madness [18X12in] [2020]
    • Book of Moths [8X5.5in] [2020]
    • Naga (after Bill Traylor) [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wheatfield with Crows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Shred the Breast [24X18in] [2020]
    • Serpent and Rainbow [24X18in] [2020]
    • Dracula [24X18in] [2020]
    • Hearts [24X18in] [2020]
    • Migration [9X12in] [2019]
    • Love [2020] [12X9in]
    • Cara Mia [12X6in] [6X4in] [2019]
    • Enter Sandman [24X18in] [2019]
    • Sun Ward [18X24in] [2019]
    • Camel [24X18in] [2019]
    • Total War [9X12in] [2019]
    • Sunday [10.75X12.5in] [2019]
    • Easter [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Rienbao [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sunstead [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • War Child [12.5X10.75.in] [2019]
    • Antigon/Ella [ES] (Doubled Sided) [28X13.5in] [2019]
    • Dionysus Christ [24X18in] [2019]
    • Lyre [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sundaze [12X9in] [2019]
    • Plague [18X24in] [2018]
    • My Foolishness [12X8in] [2018]
    • Sun Is Shining II [2017]
    • Illustrations for "Ballad of the Little Seeds" [2017]
    • How Do You Prove You're Down for Life? [8.58X10.98in] [2016]
    • Two Diamond Earrings in Robert's Ear [18X24in] [2016]
    • Winter Dream [8.5X11in] [2016]
    • Chump Change [24X18in] [2016]
  • Digital Works or Analog-Digital Hybrids
    • Flag (Uno Dos Tres)
    • Dark Eternity [2025]
    • Eternity [2025]
    • Dragon [2024]
    • Serpientes [2024]
    • Feathered Snakes [2024]
    • Ophis [2024]
    • Snake [2024]
    • The Friend (Poem) [2024]
    • The Friend [2024]
    • Dusky Jewel [2024]
    • Dark Gem [2024]
    • Zonnelbloem [2024]
    • O Rose [2024]
    • Girasols [2024]
    • Dark Sunflowers [2024]
    • Recovery (Pearl) (Floating in Space) [2024]
    • Recovery (Pearl) (The Hand as a Being) [2024]
    • Dreaming | Printing | Disaster | Purifier (Poetics) [2024]
    • Stills [2024]
    • A Throw of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance | All Thought Emits a Throw of Dice [2023]
    • L'Impossible [2023]
    • Mont Blanc [2023]
    • Stills [≤2023]
    • Alt (Pearls Before Swine: Fresh Beauty) [2023]
    • The Raven [2022]
    • Stills [2022]
    • Ore Man [2021]
    • Ye Shall Not Evade Circumstance [2021]
    • The Edge [Rubble] [2021]
    • The Edge [Ruedo] [2021]
    • Love (Carnations) [2020]
    • Lyf [2018]
    • Ornament [2017]
    • Chatterton [2017]
    • A Moveable Feast [2016]
    • Legba [2016]
    • Diptych (Nothing Is Nothing Something Is Something) [2016]
    • Atlantis [2016]
    • Atë (Ruins) [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Spiders] [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Noodles] [2016]
    • First Pearl (The World Obtrudes) [2007]
  • Photographs
    • Medusa [2022]
    • Slides [2022]
    • Eurydice [2021]
    • Everything's Up in the Air [2021]
    • Bone Broth [17X23in] [2020]
    • Stone [2020]
    • Cinnabar (Red Window) [2020]
    • The Second Ring of Power [2019]
    • Ayahuasca [2020]
    • Breakdown [2019]
    • Aetoi [2019]
    • Cartouche (with Mary Hickman) [2019-2023]
    • Graduation [2019]
    • Der Prozess [2019]
    • Triptych (On the Court of the Infinite) [2018]
    • Geswork (Diamonds) (Sky) [2018]
    • Geswork (Diamonds) [2018]
    • Geswork (Bison) [2018]
    • Vielleicht, Dass Ich Durch... [2018]
    • Two by Four [2018]
    • Labor Temple [2018]
    • Stoned Immaculate [2018]
    • Aetoi [2018]
    • Triptych (Navidad) [2018]
    • Starslide [2018]
    • New Jerusalem [2018]
    • aka [2017]
    • My Kind of Heroism 2 [60X40in] [2017]
    • Diptych (Black Heart Red Heart) [2017]
    • Pick [2017]
    • Self-Portrait (Sporting Life) [2017]
    • Aetos [2017]
    • Último Hombre [2017]
    • Triptych (Love's Feast) [2017]
    • Diptych (Gusano) [2017]
    • All I Have Is Yours [2017]
    • Hell [2017]
    • Pray for Me [2016]
    • Geswork (Bison) [2016]
    • Triptych (Valentine) [2016]
    • Metanoia [2016]
    • Quatern (Legba) [2016]
    • Bolivar (Gum Arabic) [2016]
    • Coca [2016]
    • Sojourner [2016]
    • Bacchus [2016]
    • Heart Rise [2016]
    • Ref [2016]
    • Diptych (Jai Alai) [2016]
    • Hermes [2016]
    • Clear as Light [2016]
    • Giant Rainbows [2016]
    • Razor [2016]
    • Geswork (Derecho) [2016]
    • Geswork (Izquierda) [2016]
    • Geswork (Agua) [2016]
    • Triptych (Danbala) [2016]
    • The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness) [2016]
    • Eutychus [2016]
    • You're So Confusing [2016]
    • Nada [2016]
    • Niños (Grail) [2016]
    • Floors [2016]
    • Triptych (Everyone Falls in Love Sometimes) [2016]
    • Yet Nothing Is Impossible, Nothing... [2016]
    • Poetics [2016]
    • Irises (after Van Gogh) [2016]
    • Eels Turned like Wrists [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Make Them Die Mad with Crushes and Beauty [2016]
    • Adam Walsh [2016]
    • Rainbow [2016]
    • Rienbao [2015]
  • Objects
    • Recoveries (Tapestries) [2023]
    • Rehearsal (Mulholland Drive) [10X8in] [2022]
    • Antonin Artaud Selected Writings Edited, and with an Introduction by Susan Sontag [5X3in] [2022]
    • My Boyfriend's Sweater [In Progress] [2022]
    • We're Not Serious When We're Seventeen [2022]
    • Ave Maria [In Progress] [2022]
    • D.A.R.E. (This Was Probably Worn by Some...) [2022]
    • Primeval Glory [13.5X10.5in] [2021]
    • El Otro Lado [7.5X4.75] [2021]
    • Vowels | Light on Ruins | The Yellow House [3.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Lilica) [8X10in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Marie) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Hyena) [7.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Rodrigo) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Arthur) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Magic and Reality [10.75X8in] [2020]
    • Byron [2020]
    • Puerto del Sol [2018]
    • Deck (Crushed Bones) [31X8in] [2017]
    • Untitled (Finger Trap) [.75X5.5in] [2016]
    • Neck Braces [41X55in] [2016]
    • Sappho's Lyre [4.5X3in] [2016]
  • Video
  • Artist Statement
  • Poems
  • Prose, Interviews, Reviews
  • Music
  • About
  • The Chimeras
  • New and Forthcoming
    • Dark Corals [2025-] [In Progress]
    • Sunflowers [2023-] [In Progress]
    • Suns and Dragons [2017-2024]
    • Torch [2023]
    • Culebras [2023]
    • (S)HELLS [2022 & 2025]
    • After the Flood [2022]
    • Sphinx [2022]
    • Orpheus [2022]
    • Valleys and Fans [2021]
    • Venus [2021]
    • Love [2019-2021]
    • Geswork [2018-2021]
    • Recovery [Poems]
    • Transitions: Poems 2011-2020
    • Nocturne: Selected Poems by José Asunción Silva
    • Paintings 2025
    • Paintings 2024
    • Paintings 2023
    • Paintings 2022
    • Paintings 2021
    • Selected Paintings ≤2020
    • blood / seeps / through / the windows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wormwood [8.1X6in] [2020]
    • Broken Bottle [9X5.5in] [2020]
    • Coronation [12X9in] [2020]
    • Transfer of Violence [18X24in] [2020]
    • Toro Oro Boro [6X12in] [2019]
    • Rintrah Roars [8.75X5.75in] [2019]
    • Judgement Day [8X5.5in] [2019]
    • Book of the Blue Knight [4.375X1.375in] [2018]
    • Traité de Petit Tactiques [12.5X10.75in] [2017]
    • Scratch 272 [10.5X8in] [2017]
    • Toba [8.5X6in] [2017]
    • Las Difícils [2017]
    • Symposium [5X3 inches] [2017]
    • Grand Grimoire [12.5X10.75in] [2016]
    • Dumbbell [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Pele [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Diablo [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Petit Grimoire [5X4.5in] [2016]
    • It Was Like France [6X4in] [2016]
    • Colombian Gold [2015]
    • Pearls Before Swine [2012]
    • Everything in Its Right Place [2023]
    • Andenken [12.5X14in] [2020]
    • Minotaur [2017]
    • Herr Lindworm [2017]
    • De Profundis [2017]
    • The Time of the Assassins [2016]
    • Let the Crushed Bones Rejoice [2016]
    • Like Some Boys [2016]
    • Like Some Boys (Alternates) [2016]
    • Savonarola [2016]
    • Antigone [2016]
    • Faust [2016]
    • Sappho's Busted Smile [2016]
    • Super Bubble (after Mallarmé) [2016]
    • Amore [44X72in] [2025]
    • Lonely Sunsets [24X18in] [2025]
    • Coral Picasso (Interleaf) [12.5X10.75 & 12X14in] [2025]
    • Conchita [30X22in] [2025]
    • Poet [2023]
    • Faust [2.6X1.5in] [2023]
    • Culebras (la Florida) [11X15in] [2022]
    • Spring Break [3X5in] [2022]
    • Sakutarō Waltz [18X24in] [2022]
    • Primeval Glory (Paper) [12X18in] [2022]
    • Venus (Sketches) [5X3in] [2021]
    • Valleys of Neptune [2021]
    • Jirafa [2021]
    • Things Fall Apart [18X12in] [2021]
    • Antigòn [18X24in] [2021]
    • Brujaha [18X24in] [2021]
    • Dracula [18X24in] [2021]
    • Don Juan [18X24in] [2021]
    • Beach Bums [12X9in] [2021]
    • Hippies [18X24in] [2021]
    • D. [2021]
    • Heartbreak Hotel [4.375X1.375in] [2021]
    • Transition (Manatee ↔ Dracula) [24X18in] [2021]
    • Draculas [24X18in] [2021]
    • Toro [12X18in] [2020]
    • The Infinite [2020]
    • Children of the Revolution [24X18in] [2021]
    • Ouroboros [24X18in] [2020]
    • Mercury [18X12in] [2020]
    • Culebras [11X15n] [2018-2020]
    • Blazing Furnace (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) [18X12in] [2020]
    • Desert Alchemy [12X18in] [2020]
    • Lorca [9X12in] [2020]
    • Babel [100X45in] [2020]
    • Knights of the Round Table [~8'X18in] [2020]
    • Onda [11X15in] [2020]
    • Shut the Window [11X8.5in] [2020]
    • La Familia [12X18in] [2020]
    • Ark [11X15in]
    • Madness [18X12in] [2020]
    • Book of Moths [8X5.5in] [2020]
    • Naga (after Bill Traylor) [18X24in] [2020]
    • Wheatfield with Crows [18X24in] [2020]
    • Shred the Breast [24X18in] [2020]
    • Serpent and Rainbow [24X18in] [2020]
    • Dracula [24X18in] [2020]
    • Hearts [24X18in] [2020]
    • Migration [9X12in] [2019]
    • Love [2020] [12X9in]
    • Cara Mia [12X6in] [6X4in] [2019]
    • Enter Sandman [24X18in] [2019]
    • Sun Ward [18X24in] [2019]
    • Camel [24X18in] [2019]
    • Total War [9X12in] [2019]
    • Sunday [10.75X12.5in] [2019]
    • Easter [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Rienbao [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sunstead [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • War Child [12.5X10.75.in] [2019]
    • Antigon/Ella [ES] (Doubled Sided) [28X13.5in] [2019]
    • Dionysus Christ [24X18in] [2019]
    • Lyre [12.5X10.75in] [2019]
    • Sundaze [12X9in] [2019]
    • Plague [18X24in] [2018]
    • My Foolishness [12X8in] [2018]
    • Sun Is Shining II [2017]
    • Illustrations for "Ballad of the Little Seeds" [2017]
    • How Do You Prove You're Down for Life? [8.58X10.98in] [2016]
    • Two Diamond Earrings in Robert's Ear [18X24in] [2016]
    • Winter Dream [8.5X11in] [2016]
    • Chump Change [24X18in] [2016]
    • Flag (Uno Dos Tres)
    • Dark Eternity [2025]
    • Eternity [2025]
    • Dragon [2024]
    • Serpientes [2024]
    • Feathered Snakes [2024]
    • Ophis [2024]
    • Snake [2024]
    • The Friend (Poem) [2024]
    • The Friend [2024]
    • Dusky Jewel [2024]
    • Dark Gem [2024]
    • Zonnelbloem [2024]
    • O Rose [2024]
    • Girasols [2024]
    • Dark Sunflowers [2024]
    • Recovery (Pearl) (Floating in Space) [2024]
    • Recovery (Pearl) (The Hand as a Being) [2024]
    • Dreaming | Printing | Disaster | Purifier (Poetics) [2024]
    • Stills [2024]
    • A Throw of Dice Never Will Abolish Chance | All Thought Emits a Throw of Dice [2023]
    • L'Impossible [2023]
    • Mont Blanc [2023]
    • Stills [≤2023]
    • Alt (Pearls Before Swine: Fresh Beauty) [2023]
    • The Raven [2022]
    • Stills [2022]
    • Ore Man [2021]
    • Ye Shall Not Evade Circumstance [2021]
    • The Edge [Rubble] [2021]
    • The Edge [Ruedo] [2021]
    • Love (Carnations) [2020]
    • Lyf [2018]
    • Ornament [2017]
    • Chatterton [2017]
    • A Moveable Feast [2016]
    • Legba [2016]
    • Diptych (Nothing Is Nothing Something Is Something) [2016]
    • Atlantis [2016]
    • Atë (Ruins) [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Spiders] [2016]
    • Morning Stars [Noodles] [2016]
    • First Pearl (The World Obtrudes) [2007]
    • Medusa [2022]
    • Slides [2022]
    • Eurydice [2021]
    • Everything's Up in the Air [2021]
    • Bone Broth [17X23in] [2020]
    • Stone [2020]
    • Cinnabar (Red Window) [2020]
    • The Second Ring of Power [2019]
    • Ayahuasca [2020]
    • Breakdown [2019]
    • Aetoi [2019]
    • Cartouche (with Mary Hickman) [2019-2023]
    • Graduation [2019]
    • Der Prozess [2019]
    • Triptych (On the Court of the Infinite) [2018]
    • Geswork (Diamonds) (Sky) [2018]
    • Geswork (Diamonds) [2018]
    • Geswork (Bison) [2018]
    • Vielleicht, Dass Ich Durch... [2018]
    • Two by Four [2018]
    • Labor Temple [2018]
    • Stoned Immaculate [2018]
    • Aetoi [2018]
    • Triptych (Navidad) [2018]
    • Starslide [2018]
    • New Jerusalem [2018]
    • aka [2017]
    • My Kind of Heroism 2 [60X40in] [2017]
    • Diptych (Black Heart Red Heart) [2017]
    • Pick [2017]
    • Self-Portrait (Sporting Life) [2017]
    • Aetos [2017]
    • Último Hombre [2017]
    • Triptych (Love's Feast) [2017]
    • Diptych (Gusano) [2017]
    • All I Have Is Yours [2017]
    • Hell [2017]
    • Pray for Me [2016]
    • Geswork (Bison) [2016]
    • Triptych (Valentine) [2016]
    • Metanoia [2016]
    • Quatern (Legba) [2016]
    • Bolivar (Gum Arabic) [2016]
    • Coca [2016]
    • Sojourner [2016]
    • Bacchus [2016]
    • Heart Rise [2016]
    • Ref [2016]
    • Diptych (Jai Alai) [2016]
    • Hermes [2016]
    • Clear as Light [2016]
    • Giant Rainbows [2016]
    • Razor [2016]
    • Geswork (Derecho) [2016]
    • Geswork (Izquierda) [2016]
    • Geswork (Agua) [2016]
    • Triptych (Danbala) [2016]
    • The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness) [2016]
    • Eutychus [2016]
    • You're So Confusing [2016]
    • Nada [2016]
    • Niños (Grail) [2016]
    • Floors [2016]
    • Triptych (Everyone Falls in Love Sometimes) [2016]
    • Yet Nothing Is Impossible, Nothing... [2016]
    • Poetics [2016]
    • Irises (after Van Gogh) [2016]
    • Eels Turned like Wrists [2016] [Photo Only]
    • Make Them Die Mad with Crushes and Beauty [2016]
    • Adam Walsh [2016]
    • Rainbow [2016]
    • Rienbao [2015]
    • Recoveries (Tapestries) [2023]
    • Rehearsal (Mulholland Drive) [10X8in] [2022]
    • Antonin Artaud Selected Writings Edited, and with an Introduction by Susan Sontag [5X3in] [2022]
    • My Boyfriend's Sweater [In Progress] [2022]
    • We're Not Serious When We're Seventeen [2022]
    • Ave Maria [In Progress] [2022]
    • D.A.R.E. (This Was Probably Worn by Some...) [2022]
    • Primeval Glory [13.5X10.5in] [2021]
    • El Otro Lado [7.5X4.75] [2021]
    • Vowels | Light on Ruins | The Yellow House [3.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Lilica) [8X10in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Marie) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Hyena) [7.5X5.5in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Rodrigo) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Rehearsal (Arthur) [10X8in] [2020]
    • Magic and Reality [10.75X8in] [2020]
    • Byron [2020]
    • Puerto del Sol [2018]
    • Deck (Crushed Bones) [31X8in] [2017]
    • Untitled (Finger Trap) [.75X5.5in] [2016]
    • Neck Braces [41X55in] [2016]
    • Sappho's Lyre [4.5X3in] [2016]
  • Video
  • Artist Statement
  • Poems
  • Prose, Interviews, Reviews
  • Music
  • About
  • The Chimeras
Antigone

Antigone

Torch Among Dobermanns

Torch Among Dobermanns

dreaming of Polynices

dreaming of Polynices

grilled heart

grilled heart

ginger trees melting

ginger trees melting

red as the leech's mouth

red as the leech's mouth

up till noon

up till noon

fat black curls

fat black curls

holding hands on the Gravitron

holding hands on the Gravitron

Perfect Love

Perfect Love