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Susan Rodriguez

About the Artist

How to steal water from the moon? Susan Rodriguez, an award-winning art educator who is on the faculty at the University of the Arts, will attempt this artistic feat in a one-woman exhibit, appropriately titled, Stealing Water from the Moon. The exhibition, which opens on First Friday, October 1st at Indigo Arts Gallery in Old City, will remain on display until October 31st, 2004. Alongside Rodriguez’s work Indigo Arts will be displaying New Work from Latin America, a selection of recent paintings and works on paper, primarily from Mexico and Cuba.

Rodriguez, an artist who is passionate about teaching, determined the show’s title based on its particular sentiment. “There’s a Japanese Zen saying that signifies the quest for the unattainable - which I believe essential to the creation of one’s art. Artists are always searching for certain meaning in the images they conjure”, says Rodriguez. “Not unlike teaching, there is immeasurable joy in a realized human exchange.” The exhibit is a rich offering of mixed media, mainly what Rodriguez describes as pastel collages. Rodriguez’s work is largely figurative. “My art is devoted to the universe we call the figure. I am hopelessly in love with the male and female body, and its miraculous affinity to be expressive of all that is human and divine.” It is clear that the educator artist is wholly inspired by cultural diversity. The exhibit draws upon a wide variety of sources, from Asia to the Caribbean. The body of her work, which also includes scrolls, prints and ceramics, is in keeping with the spirit and worldview of Indigo Arts Gallery.

“I’m in love”, admits Rodriguez. “But don’t ask me to choose - drawing, teaching, culture, visual and written narrative, the figure - all define my universe. Perhaps”, she muses, “I’ve even managed to steal a little dew from la luna?” Come and see for yourself.

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Susan Rodriguez
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Pastel Collage , 2004

$700

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Susan Rodriguez
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Pastel Collage , 2004

$600

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Susan Rodriguez
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Reverse glass painting , 2004

$425

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