Rocío Rodríguez

Night Poems

STATEMENT

Night for me is a time of quiet reflection, as I contemplate and question life’s contradictions and dualities. In these works I listen to a quiet voice which seeks to create visual tension by exploring dualities via a restricted vocabulary. These images are pared down to the essentials, nothing more, nothing less. I think of them as free verse or visual poems conveying my world view which is inclusive of differing ways of perceiving, where opposites can exist side by side informing each other.

question/answer presence/absence change/stasis stillness/movement

stability/instability clarity/obscurity doubt/certainty mark/erasure

OCTOBER 19 - DECEMBER 7, 2024

Rocío Rodríguez has been in over thirty solo exhibitions in contemporary art centers, museums and private galleries and has participated in more than ninety nationally curated exhibitions. She is the recipient of various awards among them a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Artadia Atlanta award, an Affiliated Fellowship Award at the American Academy in Rome, Italy, two SAF/ NEA Fellowships and a Cintas Fellowship. She has had two major retrospectives of her work, Divergent Fictions: Selected Works from 1988-2012 at the Columbus Museum of Art, in 2012 and a retrospective of her drawings, Thirty Years on Paper at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2019. In 2014 she was awarded an Artist Residency at the Marfa Contemporary in Marfa, Texas. Ms. Rodríguez’s work is in numerous private and public collections among them the High Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, the NSU Museum Fort Lauderdale, The Columbus Museum of Art, MocaGA, and the Telfair Museum of Art . Her work has been featured in two books; Out of the Rubble and NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape.

Ms. Rodríguez received both her MFA and BFA degrees from the University of Georgia and she is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta, GA and by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC. She was a recipient of Georgia Women to Watch – 2015 Georgia Committee National Museum of Women in the Arts

ROCÍO RODRÍGUEZ | JANUARY 9, 2024

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ROCÍO RODRÍGUEZ | MARCH 7, 2024 |

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