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Sandy PANTALONES

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About Me

Beneath canopy of telephone and cable lines my current works examine Los Angeles Urban Landscape. Illuminated by the unnatural glow of sodium and mercury vapor streetlights are views of apartments, single-family homes. The silhouetted iconic Canary Island Imperial palms included in many works stand in sharp contrast to the overgrown backyards with dilapidated sheds and abandoned cars depicting an aspect of the city most familiar to its residents. With the distant air traffic hovering past, these works present an alternative view of Los Angeles (2004-present)***Daytime: Recurring motifs of LAPD cars, helicopters, and surveillance cameras set against neighborhood scenes of locally owned storefronts along Sunset and Hollywood Boulevard in Echo Park and Hollywood. (2000-2006).* * *The chosen color pallet evoke the peculiar yet particular to LA, atmosphere effects seen throughout the city whether whiteout bright light; smog-induced Technicolor sunsets; to crystal clear views of the LA basin. Through my works I participate in a surveillance of Los Angeles in redevelopment.Get Your Own! | View Slideshow
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My Interests

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#.

I'd like to meet:

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.... Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

Heroes:

my bad ass friends and family

My Blog

FEB 10th C.IA. the Festival of Mirth 666.0 The Love Show

Feb. 10th at the C.I.A.:The Festival of Mirth 666.0The Love Show!Puppet Shows, Circus, Music, and MORE!A Phantazim of Muzik and Fun.Come see out lovelee fire dinner filled with love, sex, bl...
Posted by Sandy "Pantalones" Rodriguez on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:38:00 PST

2 Exhibitions at TROPICO DE NOPAL in the NEW YEAR

Sat. Jan. 6, 2007 "A SHORT AND SWEET EPIPHANY II" a.k.a. Dia de los Reyes4-6 pm    Collectors'  Reception  (call the gallery to RSVP)8-12 midnight   Artist...
Posted by Sandy "Pantalones" Rodriguez on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:33:00 PST

A Carnivourous Delight - TONIGHT

I am showing this beauty tonight for the first time at a huge show ...
Posted by Sandy "Pantalones" Rodriguez on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 02:33:00 PST

Xican@ Demiurge - FRESNO & BERLIN 2007

 JAN & MAY 2007++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Xican@ Demiurge -  FRESNO & BERLIN This exhibition was curated by Richard Duardo, Francesco X. Siqueiros and Armando H. Torres. Art that is...
Posted by Sandy "Pantalones" Rodriguez on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:26:00 PST

Terror?

+++++++++++SEPT. 11 - NOV 11, 2006++++++++++TERROR?INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTSSan Francisco,CAhttp://theintersection.org/calendar/program_gall ery.php  ...
Posted by Sandy "Pantalones" Rodriguez on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:11:00 PST