The Command
Modern and Contemporary Art

The Command
Artwork Details
Artist/Maker
Rocío Rodríguez
American, born Cuba, 1952
American, born Cuba, 1952
Date
1988
Medium
Oil on canvas
Accession #
1988.44
Dimensions
84 x 91 inches
Location
On View - Anne Cox Chambers Wing, Skyway, Gallery 422
Description
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.”
Credit
Purchase with funds from the Lannan FoundationImage Copyright
© Rocío Rodríguez