Background
Freddy Rodríguez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic in 1945.
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Freddy Rodriguez
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He studied painting at the Art Students League of New York and The New School, and obtained a degree in textile design from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Career
Much of his work takes the form of large, colorful geometric abstractions. His paintings have been widely exhibited and are held in several important collections. His family were artists.
Rodríguez immigrated to the United States in 1963 at the age of eighteen.
In New York he spent much time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was particularly interested in the work of Piet Mondrian. In the 1980s he joined with several other Dominican visual artists including Bismark Victoria, Eligio Reynoso, Magno Laracuente and Tito Canepa to form the "Dominican Visual Artists of New York".
This group succeeded in obtaining sponsorship for exhibitions of Dominican Art in popular locations. In 1991 the New York Foundation for the Arts named him "Gregory Millard Fellow in Painting".
In 1992 he was a NYSCA Artist in Residence at El Museo del Barrio.
In 1994, Rodríguez"s work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador. Other American artists exhibiting at this show were Donald Locke, Philemona Williamson, Whitfield Lovell and Emilio Cruz. Some more recent exhibitions that have included his work:
2005: Newark Museum, America’s Pastime: Portraits of the Dominican Dream, s by Freddy Rodríguez
2010, November: Edge Zones Art Center Duodecad = 12
2010, December: Praxis International Art Colorforms
2010, December: ZONES Art Fair, Wynwood
2012, September: CUE Art Foundation Creating a Living Legacy.
