For more than thirty years Rocio Rodríguez has explored a variety of approaches to painting in her Atlanta-based studio. At the center of her practice is a symbiotic relationship between the artist and her work. Rodríguez constantly recalibrates the skills required to gain command of her materials and techniques, in a process that is often experimental. The Command, the female figures represent this relationship between the artist and her work – one controlling and the other passive. Rodriguez describes their action as the “contortions we put ourselves through in service to the Ego.”