ROCIO RODRIGUEZ Neither Here nor There

ROCÍO RODRÍGUEZ

Neither Here nor There

On the cover: Canyon Grey, 2015 Oil on canvas 48 x 68 in.

Rocío Rodríguez

Neither Here nor There

September 10th – October 17th, 2015

Bits and Pieces (Detail), 2015 Oil on canvas 60 x 68 in.

Canyon Grey, 2015 Oil on canvas 48 x 68 in.

Days Debris, 2015 Oil on canvas 60 x 85 1/2 in.

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present Neither Here nor There, a solo exhibiCon featuring new painCngs and works on paper by Rocío Rodríguez.

Rocío Rodríguez began her current body of work by re-­‐examining her pracCce of loose narraCve abstracCon. She drew freely through her ideas, like diary entries, breaking down her visual language into its consCtuent parts. Out of this process, singular forms and shapes appeared, that occupied fixed and transient spaces on the same picture plane. What evolved was a new series that examines abstracCon as representaCon. They do not tell a story, rather, they discuss the nature of painCng itself.

The series disClls the image into Rodríguez’s elements of mark making. These elements are stacked up and totem-­‐like, to elevate the parts of a whole. FranCc, gestural crescendos are quesConed by quiet, solid rectangles. The rectangles seem to be floaCng while others are anchored to a horizon, edge, or pedestal in various states of appearing. The indeterminate spaCal references, and fractured mark-­‐making create equivocal metaphors within the work. The images are resolved by the revelaCon that nothing is everything, and eventually ephemeral. The Ctle of the exhibiCon “signifies ‘the transitory’ and implies paradoxical space where abstracCon and representaCon can meet to form a whole.” (Rodríguez).

Rodríguez recently completed a residency at Marfa Contemporary, TX, where the desert landscape inspired the pale[e and spaCal relaConships of the work in this exhibiCon. Along with painCngs and drawings, past work in this series has also included temporary, large-­‐scale, site-­‐specific wall drawings. Notably, a 10 x 16_ work exhibited in July 2015 at Marfa Contemporary, and a 12 x 21_ wall drawing was commissioned for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 2013.

Bits and Pieces, 2015 Oil on canvas 60 x 68 in.

Fevered Night, 2015 Oil on canvas 55 x 66 in.

Neither here nor there, 2015 Oil on canvas 72 x 111 in.

Reds Rising, 2015 Oil on canvas 55 x 76 in.

Stacked moments, 2015 Oil on canvas 48 x 57 in.

Wet cluster, 2015 Oil on canvas 48 x 42 in.

16-Oct-14, 2014 Pastel, oil pastel, and charcoal on paper 18 x 24 in.

4-Nov-14, 2014 Pastel, oil pastel, and charcoal on paper 18 x 24 in.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

2014 Encounters: Rocio Rodriguez, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 2015 Out of Rubble, Center for Art, Design, Visual Culture, 2012 Rocío Rodríguez: Divergent Fic9ons: Selected Works from 1988-­‐2012, The University of Maryland BalCmore County, BalCmore, MD Columbus Museum, 2014 Out of Rubble, Schmucker Art Gallery, Ge[ysburg College, Columbus, GA Ge[ysburg, PA PURGE; Works on Paper, Wall drawing, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2013 Drawing Inside the Perimeter-­‐ High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2010 Rocío Rodríguez, Pain9ngs and Drawings, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, (commissioned wall drawing).

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Spring Revival, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City, NY the Wall drawing, project ERC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Out of the Rubble, Wells College, String Room Gallery Visual Arts Atlanta, GA Department. Aurora, NY 2009 Varied Fic9ons/Rocío Rodríguez, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Il. 2012 Thanks-­‐-­‐ 50th Anniversary Year, Carl Solway Gallery. CincinnaC, OH. 2008 Rocio Rodriguez, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Southern Abstrac9on, A Fresh Look. Mobile Museum of Art. Mobile, AL 2006 Transgressions: New Pain9ngs, Rocío Rodríguez, Carl Solway Gallery, Out of the Rubble, Bowling Green State University Galleries, Bowling CincinnaC, OH Green, OH Rocío Rodríguez, Parallels, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, 2011 Trading Places Part 1, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA Out of the Rubble, Space Gallery, Pi[sburgh, PA 2004 Rocío Rodríguez, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA No Glory, Form and Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2001 Dual Nature, Rocío Rodríguez, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Repetoire, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 Rocío Rodríguez, Temporary Contemporary Series, 2010 The Painter’s Reel, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga. Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN The Morris Museum, Augusta, GA

New Pain9ngs, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Doublethink, Rocío Rodríguez and Martha Whikngton, Pinnacle

Pain9ngs, Hemphill Fine Art, Washington, DC. Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA 1998 New Pain9ngs, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2009 Physical/Metaphysical, Selected PainCngs by Betsy Cain, Don 1996 Rocío Rodríguez Five Years, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA Cooper,

Rocio Rodriguez, University of Georgia, Gallery 307, Athens, GA AWARDS

The Painter’s Reel, Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, 2014 Resident ArCst, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, Texas Ga. 2011 Artadia Award, Atlanta 2008 Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art, Museum of Art-­‐ Fort 2003 ArCst in Residency, Fundación Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1999 VisiCng ArCst, American Academy of Art in Rome 2007 Summer Show, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ 1997 Southern Regional VisiCng ArCst Award at the American Academy in The Velocity of Gesture or how to build and Empire, Dalton Gallery, Rome AFAAR Agnes Sco[ College, Atlanta, GA Southern Arts FederaCon /NaConal Endowment for the Arts Regional 2006 30th Parallel a Convergence of Contemporary Pain9ng, Jacksonville 1996 Fellowships-­‐ works on Paper, Pain9ng Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL 1995 City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs , ArCst Projects Grant Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, 1990 Fellowships-­‐ works on Paper, Pain9ng CincinnaC, OH Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts, City of Atlanta, PainCng 2002 Triennial, City Gallery East, Atlanta, Ga., Museum of Arts and 1988 Georgia Council for the Arts, ArCst IniCated Grant Sciences, Macon, GA City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs , ArCst Projects Grant Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah GA, Albany Museum of Art, 1980 Oscar B. Cintas Fellowship Albany, GA 1978 Ford FoundaCon Fellowship

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

h[p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVObLSfIUV4 Michael Rooks, (Modern and Contemporary Art Curator at the High Museum of Art) talks with Rocío Rodríguez about her commissioned, site specific wall drawing for the Drawing Inside the Perimeter exhibit at the High Museum of Art. 2013. Video courtesy of the High Museum of Art. BURNAWAY.ORG., ART CRUSH: ‘Rocío Rodríguez’s Cultural Dichotomies’, An interview with Rocio Rodriguez and Susannah Darrow and Laura Henninghausen of Burnaway.org, July 2013. h[p://burnaway.org/2013/07/art-­‐crush-­‐ro Art in America, November 2012, “Rocio Rodriguez, Columbus Museum”, p. 174-­‐75. Review by Stephanie Cash.

Burnaway.org, “Rocío Rodríguez’s ‘Purge’ a Dialogue with the Past” September 4, 2012. Review by Maggie Davis. h[p://burnaway.org/2012/09/rocio-­‐rodriguezs-­‐purge-­‐a-­‐dialogue-­‐with-­‐ the-­‐past/ ARTSATL.COM, “The FerClity of Instability, and its PossibiliCes, in Rocío Rodríguez’s Purge”. July 26, 2012. Review by ChrisCna Co[er. h[p:// www.artsatl.com/2012/07/review-­‐rodriguez-­‐explores-­‐instabiliCes-­‐ possibiliCes-­‐refreshing-­‐purge/ Crea9ve Loafing, “Only the EssenCals, Rocío Rodríguez tears panCng down to build it back up in Purge”. p. 18, by Grace Thornton, August 30 -­‐ September 5, 2012. h[p://clatl.com/atlanta/roco-­‐rodrguez-­‐tears-­‐ painCng-­‐down-­‐to-­‐build-­‐it-­‐back-­‐up/Content?oid=6238864 Atlanta Journal and Cons9tu9on, “Drawings Mark Shi_ in DirecCon”, p.

D5 by Felicia Feaster, Friday, July 27, 2012.

NOPLACENESS: Art in a Post-­‐Urban Landscape, Acopolypse, Catherine Fox, 2011, p. 209-­‐210, 228-­‐ 231.

Out of Rubble, by Susanne Slavick, 2011. p. 39, 112, 113.

The Atlanta Journal and Cons9tu9on, December 17, 2010, The Arts, “Solo exhibiCons that stand out”, by Cathy Fox, p. D 7.

Georgia Masterpieces-­‐ Selected Works from Georgia’s Museums, published by Georgia Council for the Arts, essay by Holly Koons McCullough, p.69-­‐71. 2009.

EDUCATION

University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

MFA BFA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Ala. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga. Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ga. The Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga.

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fl. Agnes Sco[ College, Decatur, Ga. The Cintas CollecCon Hartsfield InternaConal Airport, Concourse E6, Atlanta, Ga. Alston and Bird, Atlanta, Ga.

Troutman and Sanders, Atlanta, Ga. King and Spalding, Atlanta, Ga. Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Atlanta, Ga. HOK, Atlanta, Ga. Cousins ProperCes, Terminus, Atlanta, Ga.

Stevens & Wilkenson, Stang & Newdow Inc.

Culpepper, McAuliffe, & Meaders, Atlanta, Ga. Equifax, Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta, Ga. Kidder Peabody & Co., Atlanta, Ga. Jerusalem House, Atlanta, Ga. Thyssen Rheinstahl Tecknik Co., Atlanta, Ga 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.

Space Design InternaConal, CincinnaC, Oh. Mead CorporaCon, Dayton, Oh. Hamilton Campus CollecCon, Miami University, Hamilton, Oh.

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