IYKYK
November 28-December 9
https://art.utsa.edu/miguel-rodriguez-mfa-exhibition
purchase inquiries: miguel@wrpc.xyz
About the Artist
Miguel Rodriguez’s work is a contemporary approach to art making through the utilization of new technologies such as 3D modeling, texturing, sculpting and volumetric photogrammetry. This practice exists on a continuum of his larger goals as a world-builder in efforts of both deconstructing and reconstructing the complexities of the human experience and the immortal potential of our collective digital afterlife
Using both literal and figurative sweetness as an entry way for larger recognitions of late-stage capitalism and an impending transhumanist future, IYKYK focuses on the potentialities of coded languages and the role it plays in building and sustaining the most hidden communities of contemporary society. Using the aesthetics of Pixar and Disney the viewer is welcomed into an immersive space where the line between the digital and material blur – into liminality. Like the existence of borderland walkers or what sociologist Gloria Anzaldúa names nepantla, IYKYK challenges rigidity both conceptually and historically. Antithetical to the rules of the “white cube” the artist challenges the traditions of high vs. low art through a myriad of displays. Pulling from a diversity of influences such as the architecturally significant world-building of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica or the research-based NASA proposals of the late Argentinian artist Gyula Kosice, Rodriguez pulls from a vast database of art historical figures/movements to create his own vision of utopia. Using new technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, volumetric photogrammetry, 3D modeling, texturing, character building and 3D printing, IYKYK is one phase in a larger search for the semiotics of both the subconscious and the hyperaware.
Two Spirited Away 3D Print Process 1
13 x 19”
Signed Digital Print, $250
13 x 19”
Signed Digital Print, $250
New American Painting Process 1
13 x 19”
Signed Digital Print,
$250
13 x 19”
Signed Digital Print,
$250
Simulated Metal Boolean Close-Up,
8x10”
Signed Digital Print,
$175
8x10”
Signed Digital Print,
$175
Fragmented Corporeal Modeling Process 1
8 x 10”
Signed Digital Print
$175
8 x 10”
Signed Digital Print
$175
Twin Spirited Away 3D Print Process 2,
8x10”
Signed Digital Print
$175
8x10”
Signed Digital Print
$175
Twin Spirited Away 3D Print Process 3,
5 x 7”
Signed Digital Print
$100
5 x 7”
Signed Digital Print
$100
Twin Spirited Away 3D Print Process 4,
5 x 7”
Signed Digital Print
$100
5 x 7”
Signed Digital Print
$100
Twin Spirited Away 3D Print Process 5,
5 x 7”
Signed Digital Print
$100
5 x 7”
Signed Digital Print
$100
9. New American Painting Process 2,
5x7”
Signed Digital Print,
$100
5x7”
Signed Digital Print,
$100
New American Painting Process 3,
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$100
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$100
New American Painting Process 4
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$75
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$75
Twin Spirited Away 3D Print Process 5,
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$75
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$75
Self-portrait
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$75
4x6”
Signed Digital Print
$75
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Past projects include work as a musician and visual artist under a psuedonym that has been featured regionally and nationally including performances at the Empire Theater, The Blanton Museum of Art, Navajo Nation Museum and more. Visual art exhibitions include the McNay Art Museum, the Mexican American Cultural Center, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and a recent solo exhibition at the Visual Art Center in downtown Austin, Texas. Awards include Trinity University Hendricks Award for Excellence in the Arts, two time recipient of Luminaria Arts Festival grant, two time First Place winner for the San Antonio Film Commission Neighborhood Film. Press and publications include interviews with the VICE, Glasstire, Sightlines Magazine, San Antonio Express-News, the SA Current and the Daily Texan.