rocío rodríguez
Rocío Rodríguez | Night Poems
Exhibition Dates: October 19 - December 7, 2024
Reception: October 19, 2-5 pm
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Night Poems, by Georgia-based artist Rocío Rodríguez. Rodríguez has participated in over thirty solo exhibitions in contemporary art centers, museums, and private galleries, as well as more than ninety nationally curated exhibitions. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the Artadia Atlanta Award, an Affiliated Fellowship Award at the American Academy in Rome, two SAF/NEA Fellowships, and a Cintas Fellowship.
Rodríguez has had two major retrospectives: Divergent Fictions: Selected Works from 1988-2012 at the Columbus Museum of Art, and Thirty Years on Paper, a retrospective of her drawings at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2019. In 2014, she was awarded an Artist Residency at the Marfa Contemporary in Texas. Her work is part of numerous collections, including the High Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, and the Telfair Museum of Art. Additionally, her work has been featured in two books: Out of the Rubble and NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape. She received her MFA and BFA from the University of Georgia and is represented by Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta.
“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 that seeks to create visual tension by exploring dualities through 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 worldview, which includes differing ways of perceiving, where opposites can exist side by side, informing each other.”
Rocío Rodríguez has been in over thirty solo exhibitions in contemporary art centers, museums and private galleries and has participated in over ninety national curated exhibitions. She is the recipient of various national and regional awards among them Anonymous Was a Woman Award 2018, the Artadia Atlanta 2011 award, a Cintas Fellowship, an Affiliated Fellowship Award at the American Academy in Rome, Italy and two SAF/NEA Fellowships. She has had two major retrospectives of her work, Divergent Fictions: Selected Works from 1988-2012 at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, GA, 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 where she also had a solo exhibition in July of 2015. Ms. Rodríguez’s work is in numerous international private collections and public national collections among them the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, the Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, ALA, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FLA, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. Her work has been featured in two books; Out of the Rubble and NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape.
Ms. Rodríguez was born in Cuba and came to the US in 1961. She 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.