Rodolfo Choperena

My work is abstracted photography: representational yet complicated by the obscuring and absenting of the subject. By inducing movement and manually manipulating light sources, I provoke a figurative tableau into transforming into abstraction. Every shot, every video, is the evidence of a performance with the acts of montage and manipulation performed in camera. Movement is the primary performative act. By maneuvering the camera's placement, aperture and exposure settings in relation to color fields, landscapes, light sources, precipitation and seascapes, my work pushes the boundaries of perception, creating organic, lyrical free forms. The resultant images retain their pure chroma. Each is the reinterpretation of the original subject with striations that shift in varying intervals and rhythms, alternately compressing and expanding positive and negative space. However obscured each composition may be, a firm representational vantage point remains host to personal objects and scenario manipulations, making each image a direct reflection of my ever-changing environment.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Art Board #1, Guadalupe Cultural Art Center, San Antonio, TX

2012
Untitled, Guthrie Contemporary Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The New Mexican: Recent Work, Santa Fe, NM

2011
ArtSee Miami, Curated by Julio Santiago, Miami, FL
Recent Work, Fotoseptiembre, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
Recent Work, PhotoNOLA, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA

2009
Inaugural Exhibition, 4Design Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Unexpected: Recent Works by Rodolfo Choperena, G2 ArtSight, San Antonio, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming
The Vastness Is Bearable, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

2013
ITCH, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Biophilia: Piso 51, Mexico City, Mexico

2012
Big and Bright: New Work From Texas, Southwestern College Art Gallery,
Chula Vista, CA
Shilpa: Colors of India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Walkers’ Gallery, San Marcos, TX
Arte Nuevo / New Art: San Antonio 2012, University of Texas at San Antonio

2011
Art Pair, Emily Morgan Hotel, San Antonio, TX
By Permit Only, Guadalupe Cultural Art Center, San Antonio, TX
Transitio_MX 04: The Electronic Arts and Video Festival 04, Mexico City, Mexico
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