Artist Talk: Sandra C. Fernandez

Flatbed Press is pleased to announce Sandra C. Fernandez's Artist talk discussing her latest body of work "Eduring Presence: Memory, Migration, and Becoming." Join us in the Flatbed gallery on April 9,2026 at 6:30pm.

Fernandez explores migration as an emotional and transformative experience. Using monotype, lithography, and stitching, she constructs collaged dress-forms from fragmented images and text. Produced as unique impressions, these sewn “garments” hold memory, labor, and resilience, embodying a state of becoming shaped by loss, endurance, and hope, while honoring the labor and strength required to persist.

Fernandez writes: These works celebrate endurance, labor, and the strength required to persist. Theyhonor survival not as a fixed outcome, but as an ongoing way of being. Although thedirect image of the woman is absent, her presence endures—embedded in form,gesture, and material—affirming that from rupture and change, something meaningful,joyful, and lasting can be made.

Special thanks to the women who generously shared their presence and stories of migration with me. Learning about their journeys and discovering parallels with my own inspired this body of work. Migration is an act of courage and resilience, and I honor them with deep gratitude.

Fernandez and Flatbed have pledged that a portion of the sales will be donated to Casa Mariariella, a shelter for displaced women in Austin, Texas.

This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Office of Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.

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