Controlled Burn
April 21 - May 21, 2017
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
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Installation view, Controlled Burn, 2017
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Installation view, Controlled Burn, 2017
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Installation view, Controlled Burn, 2017
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Installation view, Controlled Burn, 2017
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Installation view, Controlled Burn, 2017
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Installation view, Controlled Burn, 2017
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Zaza Garden, 2017
Acrylic, nails, rope, wire, and found objects
11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches -
Zaza Garden (side view), 2017
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Bijou Bower, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and found objects on panel with artist made frame
8 x 9 inches -
Tigresa, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, limestone, and feather on panel
13 1/2 x 11 inches -
Buff, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, wood, and found objects on panel with artist made frame
13 x 15 inches -
Self Portrait on Fire, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and found objects on panel with artist made frame
15 x 10 inches -
Self Portrait as Reparian Technician, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and found objects on panel with artist made frame
15 x 10 inches -
Bird's Agreement, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and found objects on panel with artist made frame
10 1/2 x 14 inches -
Bird's Agreement (side view), 2017
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Bambusa, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and rubber hose on panel with artist made frame
22 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches -
Shy Violets, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and glass on panel with artist made frame
21 x 17 inches -
Snake Theory, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, and glass on panel with artist made frame
17 1/2 x 22 inches -
Lights Revolt, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, styrofoam and found objects on panel with artist made frame
20 x 20 inches -
Jumbo, 2017
Oil, nails, rope, plastic, foil, roofing shingles, and styrofoam on panel with artist made frame
20 x 20 inches -
Untitled, 2017
Graphite on paper
26 1/4 x 22 inches (Framed) -
Untitled, 2017
Graphite on paper
26 1/4 x 22 inches (Framed) -
Untitled, 2017
Graphite on paper
26 1/4 x 22 inches (Framed) -
Untitled, 2017
Graphite on paper
26 1/4 x 22 inches (Framed)
Press Release
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is thrilled to announce Controlled Burn, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with San Antonio-based artist Daniel Rios Rodriguez.
Rodriguez’s modest scale canvases reconfigure abstraction as symbolic, esoteric explorations that consider landscape, still life painting and vanitas iconography as themes and associations within his practice. Combining the formal austerity of Constructivism with the mystical elements of Surrealism, the artist’s intimate constructions gesture toward something beyond a physical reality. Through their abstruse narratives, the works express reverence for other art forms such as theater, literature, and film.
Incorporating and encoding cast off or discarded materials found on daily walks taken in and around the San Antonio River Valley — feathers, rope, wood, shells, river rocks— into his miniature tableaux, Ro- driguez’s semi-abstract compositions become autobiographical investigations where memory and nostalgia become a condition of his practice. Loaded with symbolic meaning and emotional content, these subversive assemblages echo and reflect the functionality of talismans or amulets.
The title of the exhibition, Controlled Burn, refers to Rodriguez’s variety of formal experiments — burning, cutting, etching— that test both the surface and the structure of his works. The physicality of his process can be seen in the roughly hewn artist-made frames as well as the careful application of feathers and other delicate objects. Contextually elusive and self-aware, Rodriguez’s canvases defy traditional painting practices, evolving into a territory all its own.
Daniel Rios Rodriguez (Born in Killeen, TX, 1978) received his MFA from Yale in 2007. He lives and works in San Antonio. Recent solo exhibitions include Lulu, Mexico City; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; White Columns, New York.; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Recent group exhibitions include Galeria Fortes D’aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, Martos Gallery, New York; Wilkinson Gallery, London; Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles. Additionally, Rodriguez has an upcoming solo project with Cooper Cole, Toronto (Summer 2017). The artist is a 2013 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.