Archives: Sandy Rodriguez

Los Angeles 2001-2007

55 pictures, last one added on Apr 24, 2008

Panty Paintings
oil on canvas
2005

3 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

Self Portraits

7 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

OFRENDAS 2005 | Dia de los Muertos | Tropico De Nopal Art GALLERY
Ofrenda para los immigrantes
Monarchas de Muerte VS. The unnatural enemy: I.N.S officer
by Sandy and Guadalupe Rodriguez

Courtesy of Tropico de Nopal ©2005

18 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

OFRENDAS 2006 | Dia de los Muertos | Tropico de Nopal Art Gallery

Ofrenda a los Santos Inocentes
La Llorona, Frida and Diego
by Sandy and Guadalupe Rodriguez

Courtesy of Tropico de Nopal ©2006 photo by Gil Ortiz.

http://tropicodenopal.com

1 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

Bar Drawings
2005-2007

9 pictures, last one added on Jun 11, 2007

Etchings
2006

5 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

3 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

Maxi Pad is a superhero/alter ego that has been depicted in series of paintings, performances and wearable art over the past ten years. The works shown here reveal Maxi from the time that she got her “powers” at age ten to the present. The depictions of this heroin reveal her at different stages of life, absorption levels and in different settings. The earliest of the series present her as Lightdays Maxi in the borderlands with cacti, as a fashionably caped and masked dryweave Maxi in a landscape with maxi pad bushes, as smiling Quinceanera Maxi in stained dress in a isolated ocher landscape. We find a full grown unmasked maxi in period underwear with a revolutionary carabeener torturing teens to smallest of the pictures, the melancholy Dia De los Muertos Maxi in the cemetery.

Maxi Pad’s next performance will be May 19, 2007 at California Institute of Abnormal Arts in North Hollywood. There Maxi Pad the Magnificent and her lovely assistant will perform feats of magic that will reduce the length of a woman’s period in half.

Maxi pad is a distant descendant of the Amazons of the mythological island of California just as other Chicana superheroes, such as Linda Carter, were also descended from the Amazons, so to Maxi receives her powers from this superhero matriarchy of the Americas.

Maxi’s powers are extensive. In a wrestling match she can debilitate opponents so that they are reduced to a whimpering ball on the floor.. She can both give and relieve the following symptoms bloating, cramps, headache, breast tenderness, irritability and weight gain.

11 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007

"Rodriguez’ installation evokes painting aesthetics of early 19th century American paintings of the West. Rodriguez’ series analyzes a 100 year history of this region and queries the power and process of naming a place as one’s own. Depicted in the oil paintings of Eastlake (pre-Lincoln Park) are images of a past only remembered in vintage memorabilia when the park once housed an ostrich farm, alligators in the lake, an arboretum, and racetracks that ran along the park. The series solicits a conversation between the past and present history of Lincoln Park, where the Boathouse Gallery now stands. Intermixed in this installation is also a matrilineal artistic family legacy the artist claims as her own as she discovers her grandmother’s travels to this region. The inclusion of photographs that highlight Chicano youth activism of the 1970s resonates with the community center’s past of coming into existence. The installation can be viewed as a collective visual history of what once existed"
-curator, reina prado

see http://latino.si.edu/researchandmuseums/presentations/prado_papers.html

6 pictures, last one added on May 17, 2007

On March 21, 2003 the press and public were invited to attend a remarkable, large scale art exhibit: Convergence: Portable Labor and Convenience. The focal point of Convergence is a one-hundred foot mural that spans the U.S/Mexican border—and countless ideologies.

For Convergence, southern California artist Abel Alejandre coordinated the efforts of 20 artists—ten working in Los Angeles California at Tropico de Nopal gallery-art space and ten working in Mexicali, BC, Mexico—to create the mural. In each region, the artists worked on contiguous spaces of canvas—each artist is responsible for a 5' X 5' section. The two sections of canvas will be conjoined, March 21, on the US/Mexico border at Mexicali at an event that is being held in conjunction with the Festival of Spring.

Some of the artists contributing to the project include Abel Alejandre, Joseph Beckles, Rogelio Perce Cano, Pablo Castañeda, Heriberto Castro, Fernando Corona, Roberto Delgado, Ismael Castro Garcia, Ariel Cristian Molina Ibarra, Victor Larios, Raphel Noz, Francisco Postlethwaite, Eduardo Quintero, Juan Quintero, Reyes Rodriquez, Sandy Rodriguez, Arturo Ernesto Romo, Cindy Suriyani, Daniel Velazguez

Visit: http://www.alejandre.org/

6 pictures, last one added on Apr 30, 2007