Born in Uruguay, Fernando and his Portuguese immigrant parents lived on a farm in the Montevideo countryside until he was seven. Now living in Charlotte, Fernando and his Unsung Cities will be featured at Carolina Fine Art.

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Unsung Cities explores the layered beauty and tension of urban life through rough-hewn houses, stacked buildings, and serpentine stairways that seem to lead to nowhere and everywhere all at once. He creates cityscapes that are both gritty and delicately poetic.

 

Though people are never directly shown, their undeniable presence inhabits the spaces, histories, and rhythms of the neighborhoods depicted.

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Fernando invites viewers to step into these spaces and experience the pulse of unseen lives within. Inspired by the winding alleys of Alfama, Portugal, and the layered streets of Spain, his work reimagines cityscapes that exist somewhere between memory

and invention.

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Fernando and his family moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1984 where his creative foundation took root. In 1998, he took his love of art to the next llvel when he enrolled in Paier College of Art. Throughout his career in art direction and focus on graphic design, he has never abandoned his dedication to painting. His work has been shown throughout the East Coast and recently in art exhibitions in Scottsdale and Austin.