"Border Lines: Demarcation on the American Landscape" by Winter Rusiloski and Angel Fernandez
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Friday, Jul 3, 2026 6pm - 10pm
Location
K Space Contemporary
623 N Chaparral St
Details
For the past eight years, Winter Rusiloski and Angel Fernandez have lived and worked in the Big Bend region of Texas, establishing a desert studio shaped by the realities of the southern border. The sociopolitical pressures of immigration, resource scarcity, and the demands of desert survival inform their practices and echo the exhibition’s central theme: Border Lines as both physical demarcations and lived experiences.
Fernandez’s sculptural work draws from their children’s toys and everyday objects, reimagined through Chicano Rasquachismo—a strategy of making the most with limited means. His use of found materials reflects the improvisational resilience required in borderland environments.
Rusiloski’s paintings merge paint with collaged photographic fragments, juxtaposing engineered structures with natural forms. Her imagery contrasts the northern U.S. border—glacial lakes, boundary waters, and tinajas—with the arid expanse of West Texas. These opposing geographies create a dialogue of reflective coolness against desert heat, underscoring the exhibition’s exploration of how landscapes shape identity and perception.
Though each maintains an independent studio practice, collaboration is integral to their work. Their joint videos and photographs examine landscape as both personal and collective identity. In recent projects, Rusiloski paints canvases laid directly on the desert floor while drone footage captures Fernandez inscribing gestural lines into the earth at her direction. Her background in movement and choreography intersects with his history in performance, producing works that physically and conceptually trace the lines—literal and symbolic—that define American landscapes.
Winter Rusiloski was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in a rural setting outside of the city. Rusiloski earned a BFA in Painting and Related Arts-Dance at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She earned an MFA in Painting with a fellowship award at Texas Christian University. Rusiloski joined the Baylor University Department of Art and Art History in the fall of 2016 where she serves as Associate Professor of Art.
Angel Fernandez was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico and grew up in the northern region of Chihuahua before immigrating to Fort Worth, Texas. Fernandez attended Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture. Fernandez received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Fernandez is Professor of Art at Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus in downtown Fort Worth.
K Space Contemporary is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to presenting and promoting contemporary art. This programming is supported by AEP Texas and grant funding from the Coastal Bend Community Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.
Image: “Demarcation”
Opening Date: July 3, 2026
Closing Date: Aug. 21, 2026
Reception Date/Time: Opening with ArtWalk - July 3, 6 to 10 pm, and Artists’ Reception - July 17, 6 to 8 pm
