Meet the Artist-Kikito Rodriguez

Meet the Artist Kikito Rodriguez and view his latest exhibit, The Expressive Imagination at the Will Library.Kikito Rodríguez, is a Dominican multidisciplinary artist based in New York, for more than three decades, born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (1963). Rodríguez studied drawing in Modern School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1978, and from 1985 to 1988, participated in workshops of drawings, paintings, engraving, stained glass, graphic design and photography. The school in which these workshops were based is The School of Design Altos de Chavón. He graduated in Fine Arts and Illustration at The School of Design Altos de Chavón, La Romana, Dominican Republic, Affiliated to Parsons-The New School in New York, (1988). He later moved to the United States where he kept working between New York and California, Rodriguez, began to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to his creative practice, combining different techniques, working with wood, photography, silkscreen printing, recycling and digital media. After two years he in Florida where he continued to enrich his artistic language and later returned to New York, where he began to create pictorial works in mixed media. Rodríguez used canvas to create an unusual flow of images, atmospheres, allusions and metamorphic chromatic spaces that provoke surprises, restlessness and perplexity all at the same time. This lead us to perceive a vertiginous imaginary torrent that impacts an extraordinary evocative capacity.