Details

Title

The Command

Artist/Maker

Rocío Rodríguez (American, born Cuba, 1952)

Date

1988

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

84 x 91 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from the Lannan Foundation

Accession #

1988.44

On View

On View - Anne Cox Chambers Wing, Skyway, Gallery 422

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.”

Image Copyright

© Rocío Rodríguez

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