Episode No. 745 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a holiday weekend clips show featuring artist Christina Fernandez.
Fernandez is included in “Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966-2026” at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside (Calif.) Art Museum. The exhibition explores the evolution of Chicana/o/x lens-based practices through over 150 pictures made across six decades. The exhibition is on view at both RAM locations, and will remain at The Cheech through September 6, and at RAM’s Julia Morgan-designed building through July 5. through It was curated by Elizabeth Ferrer.
Concurrently, Fernandez’s 2002 Lavanderia #2 is on view in the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection galleries. The NGA holds at least six pictures from the series.
This episode was taped in 2023 on the occasion of the Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles’ post-renovation-and-expansion debut exhibition “Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer’s Contemporary Collection,” and as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth was showing “Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,” a survey of Fernandez’s career.
For images, see Episode No. 602.
Air date: February 12, 2026.

Christina Fernandez, Lavanderia #1 from the series Lavanderia, 2002.
