Sandy Rodriguez is an emerging xicana artist raised in San Diego, Tijuana, and currently resides in Los Angeles. Her installations, paintings, and performance pieces are strongly influenced by issues of place, culture and super heroes. In both her teaching and studio practice, Rodriguez incorporates contemporary art issues that relate to community history, social justice, and gender politics.Rodriguez has recently been awarded the Artist in Communities grant from Side Street Projects in Los Angeles and the California Arts Council and a selected as a finalist in MetroArt Nieghborhood Poster Series 2006. Selected exhibitions include LACMA, Intersection for the Arts, High Energy Constructs, Tropico de Nopal Gallery, Plaza de la Raza Boat House Gallery, and Coagula Projects.Sandy was a founding member of the GALA Committee, whose guerrilla artworks have been exhibited at Los Angeles' Geffen Contemporary@ MOCA and at various venues throughout Europe and the Pacific Rim, of which the project was documented by PBS in the series Art 21 www.pbs.org/art21/artists/chin/card1.html#.
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Get Your Own! | View SlideshowUna ofrenda a los Santos Inocentes.Los Santos Inocentes who passed at the hands of La Llorona, Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera.
Our Mexican magical realist vision portrays Frida with the head of a conejo and Diego withthe head of a sapo-rana. Both Frida and Diego are lured by La Llorona.Artists: Guadalupe Rodriguez and Sandy RodriguezModels: Sandy Rodriguez as La Llorona, Rainbow Underhill as Frida Hahlo and
Ben Garcia as Diego Rivera.Music: Llorona by Chavela Vargas.Tropico de Nopal Gallery Art Space - Calavara Fashion Show 2006
Music:
The guy who sings that fucked up shoes song, James Chance and The Contortions,Dagons, Le rev,Sonic youth,The Modern Lovers, 4AD, kill rock stars, Lonley Heroes,Brat mobile, pj,huggy bear, bikini kill,diamanda galas,the starvations, the cult, the clash, X, revco, lard, melt banana, yoko ono, johnny cash, nick cave, tom waits, .....drinking music, mary jane girls,rick james, blondie,pixies, unwound,throwing muses, tkk, peaches,letigre, adult, aphex twin, quintron, moog cookbook, funk and disco and my all time favorite---- 4 plays for a dollarFuzz Box -- Love is the Slug
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Movies:
Your film experiments, Cosmo's hand processed movies, Pirates vs. Unicorns,Acorns granny juice movie, Becky's roller and jello brand horse head Movies, CC's Movies,Almodovar, John Waters, Something wierd series, Superstar, The wrestling women vs. the Aztec Mummy, David Lynch,The Brood, Basket Case, Exorcist, Poltergiest, Beetlejuice, Overboard, Airplane, Them
Television:
And now some bar drawings....
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Heroes:
my bad ass friends and family
