The Land of the One Thousand Islands - Oil on Linen 60'' x 23''

Simplicity of form and exuberant use of color combine in harmony to produce the uplifting and spirited paintings by Colombian-born artist Cristina Rodriguez.  Well traveled throughout the Americas, Africa and Europe, Rodriguez’s paintings exhibit a well-developed aesthetic and sophisticated understanding of multicultural artistic traditions.  Her works, rendered in beautiful tones of oil paint on linen, blend the compositional balance of geometric abstraction with the playful human spirit of primitive artwork.  Simplified figures, reduced to their most essential elements, relate with a dynamic rhythmic movement to their solid or multi-colored backgrounds.  Shapes are boldly outlined and imaginatively rendered, often curving upward with graceful, dance-like movements.  Rich with narrative content, her paintings are continuously engaging and universally appealing and reverberate with an irrepressible, joyous energy, reflecting an intense enthusiasm for not only art-making, but for life.

She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art.

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