The Command
Rocío Rodríguez
American, born Cuba, 1952

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
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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