“Sandy Rodriguez: Putting Sarasota on the Map”

When:
April 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
2023-04-15T14:00:00-04:00
2023-04-15T15:00:00-04:00
Where:
Hermitage Palm House
6660 Manasota Key Road
Englewood
Florida 34223
“Sandy Rodriguez: Putting Sarasota on the Map” @ Hermitage Palm House

“Sandy Rodriguez: Putting Sarasota on the Map”
Featuring 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Winner in Visual Art Sandy Rodriguez
In conversation with HGP Jurors Anne Patterson and Christine Kuan

Presented in partnership with The Greenfield Foundation and Community Foundation of Sarasota County

Saturday, April 15 at 2pm

Hermitage Palm House (Parking at 6660 Manasota Key Rd., Englewood, FL 34223)

Register here.
Registration is required. $5 per person.

2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize Winner in Visual Art Sandy Rodriguez plans to use her commission to create a panoramic exhibition, the centerpiece of which will be a new large-scale map that depicts the southeastern topography and coastline of the U.S. marked by stories of resistance from the colonial period to the present. In this engaging visual conversation, Rodriguez will show examples of her work that resonate thematically and discuss her process, which includes using hand-processed, locally sourced materials for pigments. Joined by Hermitage Alum and Greenfield Prize juror for this year Anne Patterson, as well as fellow juror and Creative Capital President and Executive Director Christine Kuan, celebrate the 15th year of the prize with a sneak peak into this incredible artist’s vision of the world and concept for this storied commission.   

Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is the recipient of the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize in Visual Art. She is a Los Angeles-based artist and researcher, and first-generation Chicana raised on the US-Mexico border. Her Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Rodriguez earned her BFA from California Institute of Arts. She has exhibited her works at the Denver Art Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea. Her work is in the permanent collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden. San Marino, CA and others.  She was awarded the Caltech-Huntington Art+Research Residency, Creative Capital Award and Migrations initiative from Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative and Global Cornell. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spectrum News/NY1, and on several radio programs and podcasts.