The play And I was left without a name of the authorship of the Dominican artist Freddy Rodriguez earned him his entry into the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The New York cultural institution thus recognizes the values of the artist born in 1945 in the City of Santiago de Los Caballeros. Rodríguez then becomes the first Dominican artist in placing a piece in the prestigious collection.
In his vibrant and masterfully superimposed paintings and collages, Rodríguez fuses conceptual and stylistic elements of New York School painting with Dominican history, Caribbean culture, and transnational themes.
Her work addresses prominent social and political concerns, including the conquest and colonization of native peoples, racial discrimination, religion, and the contemporary transnational experience.
Rodríguez moved to New York City in 1963. He subsequently resided between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico before settling again permanently in New York City in 1968. There he proceeded to study painting at the New School for Social Research and textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Living and working between Greenwich Village, West Village, Chelsea and Williamsburg during the seventies and eighties.
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