Fausto Fernandez was born in El Paso, Texas, he lived in Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico, until age 25 and currently lives in Phoenix Arizona.
His works include a variety of paintings, public art, and community engagement projects. The ideas for his work develop from questioning his family upbringing, religion, human interaction, relationships in society, and the differences and similarities in his Mexican and American cultural experience.
In Arizona his collages are in the permanent collections at The Phoenix Art Museum, The Tucson Museum of Art and The Heard Museum. His public art works in Arizona include the terrazzo floor design at the Sky Train Station; the ceramic tile sculptural art installation outside the Helios Education Foundation in Phoenix Arizona; Canal Convergence in Scottsdale, and a immersive sculptural installation in Avondale Arizona.
These pieces were inspired by the awareness of change as we grow older. The collage on the painting represents his older work as an expression of his younger self and the black color represents a mystical force covering his ideas of the past. The Aztec Goddess of water and the Aztec God of the darkness and the invincible represent the force.
