The groundbreaking exhibition “OVERLOOK: Teresita Fernández Confronts Frederic Church at Olana” will open on Sunday, May 14 at Olana State Historic Site.

In this exhibition, an innovative collaboration between The Olana Partnership and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros [CPPC], artist Teresita Fernández examines Frederic Church and his contemporaries’ response to the cultures and landscapes they experienced during their 19th century Latin American travels.

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore Fernández’s perspective and respond to her provocative installation in Olana’s Sharp Family Gallery. In addition, the interactive sculpture Penetrable by the late Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto – a popular iconic work on loan from the CPPC that is coming directly to Olana from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – will be installed on one of the most prominent scenic viewpoints in Olana’s designed landscape for the duration of the exhibition.

“With each new installation of works from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, we are not only able to share those works with a new audience but gain fresh insight into their place in art history” says Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Founder of the CPPC. “To be able to show historic Latin American works from the CPPC’s collection of landscapes of Latin America and the Caribbean at Olana, the former home of the renowned Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church, is therefore a most welcome opportunity. It is especially exciting to be able to include in this collaboration the work and curatorial eye of artist Teresita Fernández, with whom the CPPC has had a long and fruitful relationship, adding another dimension to this fascinating mix.”

OVERLOOK is the largest loan exhibition The Olana Partnership has ever undertaken and includes fifty-five works from the CPPC. The Traveler Artists included in this exhibition are Frederic Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Fritz Melbye, Marianne North, Auguste Morisot, José María Velasco, Alessandro Ciccareli, Frans Jansz Post, Norton Bush, R.N. Captain Seymour, Anton Goering and Robert Ker Porter. Four works from the Olana collection will be on view for the first time, including three by Fritz Melbye, who completed one work during a Latin American trip with Frederic Church. Another work is attributed to Marianne North, a close friend of Frederic Church and the artist who inspired Fernández’s installation during her first visit to Olana. Ms. Fernández created 18 new works specifically for this installation at Olana. In addition, five masterworks on loan from the CPPC will be on view throughout Olana’s main house.

OVERLOOK will open on Sunday, May 14 and will run through November 5. For hours, tickets and more information visit www.olana.org/overlook.