ISISRODRIGUEZ
CONTEMPORARY MYTH PAINTER
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BETWEEN WORLDS: STORIES PAINTED FROM NEPANTLA
I consider myself a contemporary myth painter who specializes in nepantlic art. My art are allegorical oil paintings complete with archetypes that represent suffering and healing at the crossroads of overcoming.
My inspiration comes from writings of Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa of her definition of nepantla, "torn between ways" and the ancient Nahua word of “nepantla”, that literally means “in the middle of it”. I was born in the middle of conflict when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was first implemented and find myself again in modern times in an awkward internal struggle of in-betweenness within our divided and polarized world.
The mission of my paintings is to create contemporary legends to address ancestral, generational and current traumas and its shame, unconditional love in a climate of global change. For it’s not about the revolution, but about the evolution toward internal peace.
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“Isis performs both with her body and her brush in the worlds of activism and spirituality through New Mestiza art works of a transnational feminism that critically expands the discourses of race, gender, and sexuality.”
Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa Ph.D in Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality.
Performance Artist and Queer Activist
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BIOGRAPHY
Celebrating over 25 years of Being an Artist!
A LITTLE INTRO
Isis was born in Los Angeles California USA to Mexican American father and a Puerto Rican mother. She has been drawing since a child and received a B.F.A from the University of Kansas 1988 in Painting. She was accepted into the San Francisco Art Institute in California in 1989, to work on her M.F.A focusing on sex positive feminism.....To read more.....
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