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almudena rodriguez
www.almudenarodriguez.com
B.F.A. Fine Arts. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Attendance at lithography workshops in Arteleku and at the Círculo
de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain. Artistic Creation Grants Programme,
Mexico´s Secretariat for Foreign Relations. Directorate for
Cooperation in Education and Academia Exchanges of Mexico.
Mexico City. From 2001 to 2004 she lived and worked in Mexico City.
Currently she resides and works in Dallas, USA.
Through recycling and fragmentation she analyzes looking forward
for connections between objects that appear intentionally distant, in
this way she appropriates of images that she recycles through messages that circulate in the area of communication within a context
bound to simultaneous information channels.
Her work has been shown throughout Spain, Portugal, France,
Serbia, Algiers, Mexico, USA and in contemporary art fairs ARCO and
Art Miami.
Representing Galleries Contemporánea, Granada, Spain, Ann
Nathan Gallery, Chicago, USA and Melissa Morgan FIne Art, Palm
Desert, CA, USA
www.almudenarodriguez.com
My artistic career is characterized by a work in which I use contemporary iconosphere for transforming it into a painting entirely personal in which logos and images are interspersed with everyday
sayings ad slogans, images of gender, share a feminine writing which
serve to develop a discourse influenced by the spaces and places
where I developed my career. In this regard, I would like to highlight
my experience in Mexico in the years 2001 to 2004, which has led to
a work in which the peculiarities of the Aztec country become key
building blocks for the relations that structure my work.
As I have spent long periods in Mexico, my work is greatly influenced
by Mexican iconography. Through recycling and fragmentation I
analyze the search for connections between objects that appear
intentionally distant; in this way I take ownerchip of images that I
recycle through messages that are widespread in the area of communication within a context doomed to simultaneous information
channels.
In my paintings the canvas and the white cloth disappear. The supporting materials are created in an industrial manner, materials are
sewn together artificially forming a kind of map on which I re-arrange what I have experienced and observed: my own vision. The delicacy of the fabrics is an important part of the work, the fact that they
have different tactile qualities offers the initial way of conceiving the
piece.
I extract images from everyday banality as references to mass culture. Characters from comics, as those from mythology of the past, are
our idols of today-references of our time which are the main characters of an era full of iconic mass media. My characters find themselves in a world in which self-perception is determined by movies and
publicity, as hidden economic interests, instead of being determined
by art or thinking. From an attitude of irony, sarcasm and jeer, my
intention and desire is to offer reflection on this absurdity rather
than to contribute a releasing laughter.
I am currently working on a series of paintings in which I
analyze what is known as “Pygmalion effect”, applied in
this case to the narrative of the artistic work, or how we
can influence or determine the viewer's perception
through art, and if that is really possible. I am interested
in this subject because it is based on ambiguity, by proposing both positive and negative results in its application, ambiguity in which my work is also based
Pygmalion effect
Pygmalion effect X, acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics, 55 x 78 inches
Pygmalion effect II
acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics
70,87 x 87,80 inches
Pygmalion effect III
acrylic on hand sewn fabrics
66,93 x 77,56 inches
Regards, acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics, 55 x 78 inches
Pygmalion effect XII
acrylic on hand sewn fabrics
42 x 50 inches
Pygmalion effect XV
acrylic on hand sewn fabrics
41 x 50 inches
Pygmalion effect XVI
acrylic on hand sewn fabrics
42 x 50 inches
Pygmalion effect XVII
acrylic on hand sewn fabrics
42 x 50 inches
Pygmalion effect XVIII. Reproducción sexual por fragmentación en plantas. acrylic and wool embroidered on hand-sewn fabrics, 50 x 70 in
Pygmalion effect XX.
acrylic on hand-sewn
fabrics,
50 x 70,8 inches
Pygmalion effect XIX. acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics, 55 x 78,7 inches
Pygmalion effect, acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on amate paper, 15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect IV
acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, enamel, embroidery on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect V
acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect VI , acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, enamel and embroidery on amate paper, 15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect IX
acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect XIV
acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect VII
acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect VIII
acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Pygmalion effect XI , acrylic, aniline, ink, watercolor, embroidery on paper, 14 x 20 inches
A series of paintings and drawings in which I analyze
aspects of female iconography of the Bible from the reinterpretation of the work of seventeenth century Baroque
painter Artemisia Gentileschi, through the story of pictorial language and through the argumentation of plastic
representation, trying to establish relationships between
modernity and tradition. This project links up with pictorial series that I have done previously, and that define my
artistic work in an antrhropological and historicistic way,
through ironic statements about the everyday life.
The women in the Bible
Judith
acrylic on fabric
64 x 63 inches
Susana
acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics
67 x 65 inches
Susana II, anhilina, watercolor, ink, acrylic and embroidered thread on amate paper, 15,5 x 23,5 inches
Judith III
anhilina, watercolor, ink on amate paper
15,5 x 23,5 inches
Judith and Holofernes, acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics, 64,5 x 67,7 inches
Maria de Magdala, mixed media on hand-sewn fabrics, 83 x 86 inches
Las metamorfosis de la rana, anhilina, watercolor, ink, acrylic and embroidered thread on amate paper, 15.5 x 23,5 inches
works on fabric
Supergirl
acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics
94,42 x 78,74 inches
Cogito ergo sum
mixed media, embroidered
wool & handsewn fabrics
82,68 x 96,45 inches
Alitas, acrylic and enamel on hand-sewn fabrics. 66,93 x106,30 inches
Mariabonita
acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics
78,74 x 78,74 inches
Andare lontano
acrylic on hand-sewn fabrics
78,74 x 78,74 inches
The frog story II
acrylic and aniline on hand-sewn fabrics
78,74 x 78,74 inches
Less profit, selling more
acrylic and wool embroidered
on hand-sewn fabrics
83,46 x 88,58 inches
works on paper
Alitas III
anhilina, watercolor, ink and acrylic on amate paper
15,35 x 17,71 inches
Polinización
anhilina, watercolor, ink and acrylic on amate paper
15,35 x 17,71 inches
Si yo tuviera una escoba
anhilina, watercolor, ink, acrylic
and embroidered thread on
amate paper
15,35 x 17,71 inches
No title, anhilina, watercolor, ink and acrylic on amate paper. 15,5 x 23,5 inches
almudena rodriguez
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education
1993 B.F.A. Fine Arts. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Attendance at lithography workshops with artist Don Herbert in Arteleku, San Sebastián, and with artist Darío Villalba at the
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
From 2001 to 2004 I lived and worked in Mexico City
Currently I reside and work in Dallas, USA.
solo exhibitions
2007 -CCO: [copia de carbón oculta]. Artificial Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2003 -Ex-voto donatum, Instituto de México, San Antonio, Texas, USA
-Heroes, Arte Periferica Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2001 -Fundación Sebastián, Mexico City, Mexico
-Garage Regium Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1999 -Contemporánea Gallery, Granada, Spain
-Museo de Arte e Historia del INBA , Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
-Garage Regium Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1996 -El Foro. Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
group exhibitions (selected)
2015 -Al pie de la letra. Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain (forthcoming)
-Stock Out!, Galeria Finestra Estudio, Zaragoza, Spain
-New year group show, Ann Nathan gallery, Chicago (USA)
2014 -Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago (USA)
-Group Show, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CAL (USA)
2013 -Falll Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago (USA)
-CD (12 x 12), Félix Gómez Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
-Summer Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago (USA)
2012 -Grafika. 30 artistas de la España joven (30 Artists from Young Spain). Cervantes Institute. Itinerancy through the different headquarters
of the Cervantes Institute in Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia), Algiers (Algeria), Rome (Italy), Toulouse (Fran)
-Gráfika. Centro de Historias, Zaragoza, Spain
-SuperGrafika. Finestra Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain
-Mélange. Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago (USA)
-Russafa Escenica Festival 2012. Viveros 6. Hat Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2011 -Grafika. Cervantes Institute, Madrid, Spain
-Disposable, Ciudad Juarez and the war on women. Curated by Keith Miller, New York University (NY) and The Cross Border Project (NY).
Hat Gallery, Valencia, Spain
-Grafika. 30 artistas de la España joven, (30 Artists from Young Spain). Cervantes Instituto and Contemporánea. Itinerancy through the
different headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Amman (Jordan), Beirut (Lebanon), Cairo (Egypt), Bordeaux (France), Lisbon
(Portugal)
-Group Show, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago (USA)
2009 -Contemporánea Gallery, Granada (España)
2008 -25th Concello de Cambre Painters Award, Coruña, Spain
2007 -FM3, Mexican Institute, Mexico Embassy in Spain, Madrid, Spain
-Esprohident Foundation Painters Award , Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain
2005 -ARTSUR. Civil Maritime Museum, Government of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
2004 -MAG, Miami Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2003 -ARCO´03. Arte Periferica Gallery, Lisboa, Madrid, Spain
-ART MIAMI´03. Miami Art Gallery. Miami, Florida, USA
-Granizo, señales de una tormenta. Arcaute Gallery. Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
2002 -Catálogo General Gallery, Bilbao, Spain
-Contemporánea Gallery, Granada
-2nd Royal Premier International Painters Award, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain
2001 -Rotación XII, MUCA ROMA, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
-Situaciones. UCLM, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
-Hondarribia Fellows, Hondarribia, Guipúzcoa, Spain
-Contemporánea Gallery, Granada, Spain
2000 -Villa de Madrid Painters Award, Museo de la Ciudad, Madrid, Spain
-31st Ciudad de Alcalá Painters Award, Capilla del Oidor, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
-Contemporánea Gallery, Granada, Spain
-Majadahonda Visual Art Contest, Madrid, Spain
-Exhibition curated by Mandarina Duck Italy, Espacio Fourquet Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1999 -9th UNED Painters Award, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
-7 bajo 10 metros, Estudio Fuentes Gallery, Madrid, Spain
-Contemporánea Gallery, Granada, Spain
-Espacio Fourquet Gallery, Madrid, Spain
-30th Ciudad de Alcalá Painters Award, Casa de la Entrevista, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
1998 -Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
-3rd Villa de Brunete Art Contest, Madrid, Spain
-3rd Majadahonda Art Contest, Madrid, Spain
-29th Ciudad de Alcalá Painters Award, Capilla del Oidor, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
grants and awards
2006 -Finalist at Artistic Creation Grants Programme. Mexico´s Secretariat for Foreign Relations. Directorate General for
Cooperation in Education and Culture, Directorate for Cooperation in Education and Academia Exchanges of Mexico
2001 -Artistic Creation Grants Programme. Mexico´s Secretariat for Foreign Relations. Directorate General for Cooperation in
Education and Culture, Directorate for Cooperation in Education and Academia Exchanges of Mexico. Mexico City
2000 -3rd Hondarribia Fellowship. Hondarribia City Council and Arteleku, Guipúzcoa, Spain
1999 -Finalist. El Ojo Crítico de Artes Plásticas Art Contest, RNE, Radio Nacional de España, Spain
1996 -First Prize. La Voz de Pozuelo Young Painters Award, 3rd Edition, Madrid, Spain
1995 -Honorable Mention. La Voz de Pozuelo Young Painters Award, Madrid, Spain
-Honorable Mention. Majadahonda Art Contest, Madrid, Spain