Rodrigo de la
Luz, a Miami-based Cuban-American painter and sculptor, was born in Villa Clara,
Cuba, in 1969. His paintings, sculptures have been exhibited at the
Arteaméricas Fair (2012); Apogee exhibition sponsored by Women of Tomorrow and
ArtesMiami in 2011; Spirit of Art Gallery in Miami; at a one-man show entitled Los Teatrinos, at Cremata Gallery in
March 2009; and at the Amigos for Kids exhibition attended by 4,000 VIPs.
During the past three years, his paintings
and sculptures have also been featured at a one-man show at Miami’s Spanish
Cultural Center, the Galería del Medio, and the art shows of Save the Children
Art Exhibition and the Cuban American Bar Association. His drawings have also appeared in Proyecto
Setra digital magazine.
The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Diario Las Américas
and other publications have featured Rodrigo’s work, which has been purchased
by several prominent collectors.
The artist
defines his paintings as pop naïf. His works create an imaginary world of
masques, monsters and unique characters.
Rodrigo describes his small sculptures–made out of glass and metal–as
part of the art of detritus. About
one of his exhibitions, El Nuevo Herald’s cultural writer, Olga Connor,
wrote:
In a double exhibit, Rodrigo de la Luz revealed his other
face–that of sculptor of small figures of objets
trouvés and of creator of naïf
paintings–which could explain some of the strange aspects of his poetry. In fact, he pointed out that his Beings in the Showcase were in the poems
as well as in the objects that were exhibited all throughout the Spanish
Cultural Center, expressing his vision of life, somewhat oblique or humorous,
depending on the critic’s viewpoint.
Writer and
journalist Rodolfo Sotomayor has said: “…in
his sculptures, just as in his poems, Rodrigo utilizes simple materials, in
order to transform perfume bottles, forks, or wire into ballerinas, automobiles
or soldiers.” According to critic
Armando Añel, Rodrigo’s artistic work “throws the personal experience into the
arms of poetic imagination. His
collages, a mixture of objects—buttons, bottles …and other disposable
elements—which form the human figures or animals, seem to be telling a story,
defining a circumstance or a destiny.”
