Carlota Rodriguez

Carlota Rodriguez (b. 1987) is a Bay Area artist who joined NIAD Art Center in 2016. Her vividly colored paintings and drawings draw on the history of geometric abstraction, and feature humor, rhythm, and narrative elements. 

Rodriguez's work has been showcased in a solo exhibition in NIAD's Main Gallery in 2018, as well as in group shows at Chico Art Center, KALA, the OMCA, and Marin MOCA. Recently, several of her paintings were translated into a public mural at the LifeLong Medical Center in Richmond, California. 

Carlota Rodriguez is a lifelong Richmond resident with a large family from El Salvador who have supported her art practice. While embracing a strong sense of the handmade, Carlota Rodriguez’s paintings and drawings draw on the history of geometric abstraction as well as recent formalism. Carlota says, “when I paint I like to focus my mind on it. I like to focus on my favorite shapes like flowers and faces. When I’m working the colors come to me naturally and I just go with the flow.”.

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Carlota Rodriguez ha sido residente de Richmond toda su vida y tiene una familia numerosa de El Salvador, quienes han apoyado su trabajo artístico. Mientras adoptan un fuerte sentido de lo hecho a mano, las pinturas y dibujos de Carlota Rodríguez se basan en la historia de la abstracción geométrica, así como en el formalismo reciente. Carlota dice, “cuando pinto, me gusta concentrar mi mente en ello. Me gusta enfocarme en mis figuras favoritas como las flores y caras. Cuando estoy trabajando, los colores vienen a mí de manera natural y yo solo me dejo llevar.”