Patricia Rodriguez is a native of Oak Cliff, Texas and has been creating art and music for over twenty years. She is currently freelancing as a painter and muralist and draws a major part of her inspiration for her work from Nature.
The approach to each painting is subconscious and organic, it is never sketched or pre planned…giving it a fresh energy that is created in the moment.
Artist Statement This body of work is an exploration of Nature as a form of energy. Chaos and elegance coexist as these surreal plant forms take on different arrangements to express the pure energy of life. The work is driven by color and movement, an invitation to look closely at your reality and surroundings in a hyper digital age where screens have become our environment.
Art and Nature have the power of healing and therapy, these works aim to reconnect you with the primal essence of your Natural world.
Education
Mountain View College Dallas, Tx Fine Arts Painting 1994-2000
Booker T Washington Arts Magnet Dallas, Tx Fine Arts Painting 1990-1994
Exhibitions
***CURRENT EXHIBIT***
2024 "Second Nature", Chambers Gallery, Mesquite Arts Center Oct 7- Dec 22
2024 "Force of Nature", Goodrich Gallery FUMC Dallas Tx
2023 "HomeGrown", Kessler Theater Dallas, Tx
2020 Texas Women- Western Gallery, Austin/Dallas, Tx
2016 Landscape: A Sense of Place ,
Site: Brooklyn Gallery * juried Annette Rose Shapiro, managing editor ARTNews Magazine Brooklyn, New York
2016 Uncommon Materials, Lemieux Gallery, NOLA
2015 Arts Open Call, Patterson Appleton Center for the Arts *juried, Denton, Tx
2015 Botanica, Bedford Gallery Walnut Creek, CA *juried by MacKenzie Stephens of the Hammer Museum Los Angeles and Ken Harman of Hashimoto Contemporary and Spoke ART San Francisco
2015 Natura Keller Town Hall, TX
2015 It’s So Hard to Get Up, NRG Los Angeles CA
2015 Meridian 34, Machon Hamayim Municipal Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Texas, It’s a Culture Thing, Luminarte Gallery Dallas, Tx
2014 Collect Respect, WAAS Gallery Dallas, Tx
2014 Urban Nature with SONER, Kirk Hopper Gallery
2013 Supernatural (Solo Exhibition) Gravelmouth Gallery. San Antonio Tx
2013 Organum (Solo Exhibition) Baylor Health Sciences Library Dallas Tx
2013 Joint exhibition with Neil Mathiessen, WAAS Gallery Dallas Tx
2013 New Show Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas Tx
On View At Kessler, Kessler Theater, Dallas Tx
Fall Gallery Walk, Orisons Fine Art, Mckinney Tx Crisscrossing Corridors, Gallery at Midtown, Dallas Tx
3 x 3, EVOL Society, Dallas Tx
Hecho En Dallas, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas Tx *( juried by Peter Doroshenko director of Dallas Contemporary, Dr. Robert Tejada of SMU and Maria Teresa Pedroche of Dallas Museum Of Art)
Project 7 x 7, Rising Gallery, Dallas Tx
2012 For the Love of Kettle, Kettle Gallery, Dallas Tx
2011 First Exhibition, Start Gallery, Dallas Tx Underground, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas Tx Public Works on View, Capitol One, Dallas Tx Staff Art Show, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Tx Reflections of Our Past, Visions of Our Future, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas Tx
Bibliography
2014 Studio Visit Magazine
2014 Latino Leaders Magazine
2013 Composite Art Magazine, In The Wild edition
2013 Fine Art in Dallas, CityArtCal Publication
2011 Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review
2010 Wichita Falls Literature and Art Review Publications/Digital Media
2015 Oak Cliff Advocate interview, Rachel Stone 2012 Oak Cliff Advocate interview http://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2011/11/live-local-artist-patricia-rodriguezs-hand-painted-record-albums/
TEXAS TODAY airs Oct 25, 2024 on Channel 5 NBC
Exchange: Bartering Artists CBS DFW/LOCAL interview http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/10/31/work-exchange-bartering-artists-dfw/ 2011
Art in An Hour, The Hour Swap Project WFAA TV Good Morning Texas segment http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas/Art-in-An-Hour-The-Hour-Swap-Project-115927844.html
Curatorial Projects
2016 “Hecho En Dallas” Latino Cultural Center (jurist) “The Natural State” group exhibition, Avenue Arts Venue Dallas, Tx “Emerging Now” group exhibition, Q.E.D Gallery Dallas, Tx
Awards
2015 Expressionist Award DFW 2014 Best Muralist Award DFW
2013 Guiness World Record Breaker (team) Largest mural made of makeup in the world via Mary Kay and Eyecon Murals
2012 2nd Place Prize Latino Arts Festival judges: Benito Huerta Gallery Director at UTA, Celia Munoz national artist and Whitney Biennial exhibitor and Charles D. Mitchell writer and contributor for Art In America. 1999 Mountain View College Public Purchase Award Dallas, Tx 1998 Fordham Scholarship Award Mountain View College Dallas, Tx
1994 Congressional District Award for the Arts
