About the artist
An unfinished journey
Fernando Guérard is a sculptor, mixed-media artist, educator, and designer whose career has developed across Spain and the United States. His interdisciplinary practice combines traditional sculptural processes with woodworking, digital modeling, laser fabrication, casting, photography, found materials, and conceptual text.
His work frequently examines memory, identity, moral character, cultural heritage, resilience, and the transformation of ordinary materials. Fallen trees, discarded furniture, cardboard packaging, industrial fragments, engraved names, and fragments of language become physical records of human experience.
Guérard’s practice includes figurative sculpture, portraiture, public commemoration, conceptual assemblage, installation, functional design, and university teaching. Whether creating a commemorative portrait, a healthcare installation, or an experimental sculpture from discarded material, he approaches each project as a relationship between craftsmanship, meaning, and place.
Artist statement
“I am drawn to materials that already carry a history. Wood remembers the storm that brought it down. Cardboard bears the evidence of handling, transport, and disposal. Words can become structure, ornament, accusation, or memory. My work begins by listening to what the material already knows, then building a form that allows that history to speak.”
Practice
Craftsmanship, inquiry, and place
Studio practice
Guérard works across bronze, clay, wood, glass, fiber, cardboard, found materials, photography, laser-cut text, and digital modeling. Process remains visible whenever it strengthens the meaning of the work.
Teaching
Teaching is an extension of the studio. It is a way to help students understand that technique, experimentation, research, and meaning are not separate activities. They become most powerful when they inform one another.
Public memory
Portraiture and commemorative work are approached as acts of research and responsibility, with attention to likeness, character, material, site, and cultural context.