EDUARDO DANIEL RODRIGUEZ
paintings
"Take"
acrylic on canvas
70" x 66"
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"Through" acrylic on canvas 70" x 66" 4.700.00 sold
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"Would" acrylic on canvas 68" x 65" 4.700.00 |
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"Siphon Puff" acrylic/canvas 76" 82" 5,000.00
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"Every Night" acrylic/canvas 76" x 83 5,000.00 |
Eduardo Rodriguez
A painting’s journey through “Silence Down In The Morning”
It is always my expectation that art, and abstraction in particular, is always a singular event; that it is an approximation of selected aspects of our reality that are brought into a new context, displaced, to form new meaning in a visual, poetic, field. With color, light, and surface, a framed flat area becomes an area that one participates in various explorations of visual language like a writer searches for and moves words. A painting is the physical evidence of a search.
The new 2010 paintings are a continuation of a group of paintings that were started in 2007. This group of paintings explores various aspects of my environment, specifically my vast landscape and intimate landscape; that is, the big one and the one right in front of my reach. Living in a rural area has provided me with this dynamic, an expanse of space, both vast and intimate, and both big and ‘dirt in my shoe’ small. As a painter, the opportunity to experience a visual silence, as if hiding in plain sight of nature, has brought upon a relationship with ‘nothingness’ that is intimate and tenacious. Through visual evidence surrounding me, and photographs, observations, and interactions, my environment encourages creative endeavors with paint. These endeavors develop vicariously and visually, at once with meaningful specificity and nebulous intellective and visual dialogue within a painting. Paintings therefore produce and develop a sense of place; whether it is physical or psychological, it is a place you look at, with wonderment. Each painting travels through the ‘self’ and through the ‘other’. Each painting has its own manner of utterance, of making you aware of it. The frame, or the four sides of the canvas, become the sole container of the visual remnants of thoughts and investigations. Through abstraction, these visual remnants, or the intrinsic, emerge in the painting as theoretical, as semi-fiction, and are advanced cohesively in the painting as a whole, as a loosely based actual event intermingling with memory of the close or faraway landscape. My environment, or landscape, is therefore an un-appraised subject, unpredictable, intention-filled, spontaneous, uninvited guest (and I like it that way). It is my intention that the paintings provide a metaphorical glance, like a bad translation, of the antithetical that is so apparent physically and visually in my landscape. So through painting, I dance with (or battle) my environment armed with elegant coincidence and seductive uncertainty, like a bad translation making you listen to the silence.
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