Carlota Rodriguez

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”.

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.”

// Carlota’s available work //


exhibition history

Roses are Red, or, See what Kitty can do without fighting the war? organized by Liam Golden // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2023

OBJECT INSIDE OBJECT OUTSIDE INSIDE OBJECT OUTSIDE OBJECT organized by GGLA // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // August 2023

Untangling Webs: A Journey In Abstract Textiles, organized by Alexander Hernandez // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2023

Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD // Oakland Museum of California // May 2023

Empty Kind Of Full, organized by Tara Neuffer // NIAD Online Exhibition // May 2023

a clearing, organized by Mel Prest // NIAD Main Gallery Exhibition // April 2023

Animal, Animal, Vegetable, Vegetable, Mineral, Mineral organized by Nick Schutzenhofer // NIAD Online Exhibition // March 2023

Rainbow Cat Picnic organized by Cynthia Ona Innis // NIAD Online Exhibition // March 2023

Waking, Breathing, Making! organized by Laura Kamian McDermott // NAID Online Exhibition // February 2023

Subtle Sweetness organized by Jamie Walsh // NIAD Online Exhibition // January 2023

Holiday Gift Guide // “Between Worlds” organized by Joey Enos // NIAD Online Exhibition // December 2022

Crossover: Cedars of Marin + NIAD // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // November 2022

Blow Like Magic In Their Face And Vanish organized by James Sterling Pitt // October 2022

Follow the String, organized by Emma Spertus, Julio Rodriguez, Felicia Griffin, Dorian Reid, and Kiesha White // MarinMOCA, Novato, CA // October 2022

I Belong to Myself, organized by Maria Seda-Reeder // NIAD Online Exhibition // September 2022

I Wanna See All My Friends At Once, organized by Cone Shape Top // NIAD Online Exhibition // August 2022

Living forces, organized by Fernanda Martinez // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2022

A New Geometry, organized by e bond // NIAD Online Exhibition // July 2022

High Five, organized by Emma Spertus and Ember Avalos // NIAD Online Exhibition // June 2022

Superbloom, organized by Erin McCluskey Wheeler // NIAD Gallery Exhibition // April 2022

Luxe, Calme et Volupté, organized by Lou Mo // NIAD Online Exhibition // March 2022

Day or Night it Looks Like Night, curated by Liliana Herrera // NIAD Online Exhibition // February 2022

Relics for the Future, curated by Jessica Snow // NIAD Galleries // January 2022

Holiday Gift Guide #5, organized by Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh // NIAD Online Exhibition // December 2021

Holiday Gift Guide #6: Win Win 10 Sneak Preview, organized by Isabel Xilonen Ortiz // NIAD Online Exhibition // December 2021

Closing Of The Year // curated by Jean McElvane NIAD Windows 2020

A Kind of Movement // organized by Jay Wehnert Portland Art And Learning Studios 2019 

Forests And Clearings // organized By Wayne Smith NIAD Art Center 2019

Redefining Contemporary Art // organized by Courtney Eldridge Depot Steamboat Springs 2019

The Handmade // Rock Paper Scissors Collective Oakland 2018

Carlota Rodriguez // NIAD Art Center 2018

The Genre Leaps // organized by Margaret Tedesco NIAD Art Center 2018

Woven, Mixed, Tied, and Attached: Fiber As Message // organized By Ramekon O’Arwisters NIAD Art Center 2018

The Witnesses // organized by Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker NIAD Art Center 2017