Kikito Rodriguez

 The artworks that I have been accumulating arise from observing how the clouds alter their shapes with the wishes of the wind, forming infinite chains of unrepeatable images, although beyond abstract images, clouds also interest me as a source of analogy between their moods and their literary interpretations, which leads me to make artworks with a metaphorical and even satirical theme. The magic of their metamorphoses becomes
for me, in an obsession with the observation of light, darkness, movement and everything that it’s transmuted, being an important reference for my compositions; it is the landscape, the keynote, the level of the scale, to interpret ambiguous symbols, androgynous figures, an image that observe us giving the sensation that they come from a remote order. This challenges me as an artist to try to achieve the beyond, for being an act of creation with my own terms and internal emotions.

I like to build, narrow and prepare my own canvas, it is my first encounter with wood, canvas and the creative process. Acrylic is my main medium, although sometimes I use mixed media, for example, ink, oil, charcoal, oil pastels, pencils, airbrush and other materials. I start by attacking the blank canvas spontaneously, each s...

Kikito Rodríguez, is a Dominican multidisciplinary artist based in New York, for more than three decades, born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic (1963). Rodríguez studied drawing in Modern School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1978, and from 1982 to 1985, participated in workshops of drawings, paintings, engraving, stained glass, graphic design and photography. The school in which these workshops were based is The School of Design Altos de Chavón. He graduated in Fine Arts and Illustration at The School of Design Altos de Chavón, La Romana, Dominican Republic, Affiliated to Parsons-The New School in New York, (1988). He later moved to the United States where he kept working between New York and California, Rodriguez, began to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to his creative practice, combining different techniques, working with wood, photography, silkscreen printing, recycling and digital media. After two years he in Florida where he continued to enrich his artistic language and later returned to New York, where he began to create pictorial works in mixed media. Rodríguez used canvas to create an unusual flow of images, atmospheres, allusions and metamorphic chromatic spaces that provoke surprises, restles...

2019 Dispersión. Centro de la Cultura de Santiago.
Santiago, Dominican Republic.
2018 Espejos en el aire. Centro mirador.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2017 Muticulturalims. Riverview Gallery.
Yonkers, NY. United States of America.
2010 Tamburini - Kikito - Cataldi.
Main Gallery Altos de Chavon.
La Romana. Dominican Republic.
2009 Meeting. Main Gallery.
Altos de Chavón, La Romana. Dominican Republic.
2005 Off the Main Art Fair. Puck Building.
New York, NY. United States of America.
2005 Deep Blue. Diaspora Art Gallery.
Miami Florida. United States of America.
2005 Deep Blue. The Klein Gallery.
St. Petersburg, Florida. United States of America.
2005 Off the Main Art Fair. Puck Building.
New York, NY. United States of America.
2003 Meeting. Main Gallery.
Altos de Chavón, La Romana. Dominican Republic.
1998 Color in sand. Recoleta Cultural Center.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997 Paintings and Sculptures. Main Gallery.
Altos de Chavón, La Romana. Dominican Republic.
1996 Art is the Heights. Melstein Hall Presbyterian.
New York, NY. United States of America.
1996 Contemporary Vision. Abney Gallery.
New York, NY. United States of America.
1994 Cultural Vision. Melstein Hall Presbyterian.
New York, NY. Uni...