MONUMENTS
Photographs, Collages, and Paintings by Mike Fernandez
2020-2026
MONUMENTS brings together Polaroids, found-image collages, and mixed-media paintings shaped by recurring themes of the body, form, and nostalgia.
Drawing from vintage bodybuilding imagery, organic shapes, and architectural structures, the exhibition examines how ideals of strength, beauty, and permanence are constructed, remembered, and reimagined through image-making.
The art-directed Polaroids, created with wardrobe styling, hairstyling, and set design, are stylized portraits that blur the line between past and present.
The collages rework found imagery from physique and bodybuilding magazines, combining it with bold color fields and Matisse-inspired forms.
The paintings expand these ideas at a larger scale, layering collage, acrylic, and plaster to merge the figurative and abstract.
Together, the works transform familiar images into contemporary monuments—situated between the nostalgic and the present, the iconic and the personal
Evoking Gene Kelly, 2021 Polaroid polyptych in four parts, framed $1,195
Old Hollywood, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Silver Surfer, 2021 Polaroid polyptych in four parts, framed $1,195
Sailor, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Vintage Cowboy and Cupid's Arrow, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Front and Back, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Greek Like, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Mustache Cowboy, 2021 Polaroid triptych, framed $975
Masked, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Silver Rest, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Long Stretch, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Sport, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Swordsman, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Collaged Polaroid, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $495
Fruit Bearer 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Rose Backside and Luchador, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Reflecter, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Laid Out, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Ruby Red, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Blue Boy, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Ruby Stretched, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Amber Light, 2021 Polaroid diptych, framed $695
Tasty, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Leaning Tower, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Dual Action, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Swimmer Build, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Man Drag, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Life, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Swordsman, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Posed, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Ceremonial, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Vroom, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Greeklike, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Pegan, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Horny? 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Temple, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Pegasus, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
For Tom, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Hedonism, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
The Marine, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
The Marines, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
Marine Frontal, 2026 Found-image collage on wood panel 9 × 12 in. $365
*Arnie*, 2025 Acrylic, plaster, and collage on canvas, diptych 36 × 48 in. $1,100
Swimmer Build, 2022 Found-image and acrylic paint collage on wood panel 12× 12 in. $395
MaxFit, 2024 Acrylic, plaster, and collage on canvas 18 × 24 in. $750