1996 BA Middlebury College, Vermont 2002 MFA California College of Art, San Francisco
Selected museum exhibitions: Brooklyn Academy of Music Peter Jay Sharp Building (2014); de la Cruz Collection, Miami (2013); Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami (2007); Oakland Museum of California (2002) Selected honors: Artist-in-Residence, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami (2007); International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York (2006) Selected public collections: The Bass, Miami; de la Cruz Collection, Miami; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rubell Family Collection
The objects that Cristina LeiRodriguez creates take many forms, but all are made from common materials that are given a new intangible life. Her work is both organic and abstract, yet pristinely finished, echoing a tension between the natural and the artificial. An important figure in Miami’s art scene, Rodriguez creates sculptures that channel the character of the city as she experiences it, stating: “Nature here can be so aggressive and so strong, the natural environment here is really alive, but it’s also really about the city being constructed and so much of it is an illusion.”
plastic, epoxy, grout, plaster, pigment and dye 20 x 16 3/8 x 17 in. (50.8 x 41.6 x 43.2 cm.) Executed in 2016. This lot is sold with lot 63, Stool (Pink Quartz I) by Cristina Lei Rodriguez.
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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today
New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019