Rocío Rodríguez “Neither Here nor There”
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts presents Neither Here nor There, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings and works on paper by Rocío Rodríguez.
Rocío Rodríguez began her current body of work by re-examining her practice of loose narrative abstraction. She drew freely through her ideas, like diary entries, breaking down her visual language into its constituent 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 abstraction as representation. They do not tell a story, rather, they discuss the nature of painting itself.
The series distills the image into Rodríguez’s elements of mark making. These elements are stacked up and totem-like, to elevate the parts of a whole. Frantic, gestural crescendos are questioned by quiet, solid rectangles. The rectangles seem to be floating while others are anchored to a horizon, edge, or pedestal in various states of appearing. The indeterminate spatial references, and fractured mark-making create equivocal metaphors within the work. The images are resolved by the revelation that nothing is everything, and eventually ephemeral. The title of the exhibition “signifies ‘the transitory’ and implies paradoxical space where abstraction and representation can meet to form a whole.” (Rodríguez).
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Schedule
from September 10, 2015 to October 17, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00