Rodríguez Calero
Subtitle: Urban Martyrs + Latter-Day Santos = Mártires urbanos y santos de nuestros días
By: Edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano
Contributors: Veneciano, Jorge Daniel, editor, contributor; Anreus, Alejandro, guest curator, contributor; Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Women Artists Retrospective Series; Women Artists Retrospective Series
Publisher: El Museo del Barrio
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: mul; eng; spa
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781882454822
Subjects: Exhibitions; Collage; Mixed media (Art); Artistic Photography; Altered photography; Acrollage; Fotacrolé; Hip-hop in art; Catholic Iconography; In art
Other titles: Mártires urbanos y santos de nuestros días; Urban Martyrs + Latter-Day Santos; Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos
Description: "El Museo del Barrio's 'Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos' is the first museum survey of the Nuyorican artist Rodríguez Calero and the second in a series of five women-artist retrospectives in El Museo's current five-year plan. Rodríguez Calero forges her powerful and unique style from the richly varied traditions of her own background. Availing herself of both classical and deeply contemporary elements including surrealist collage, Catholic iconography, medieval religious painting, and hip-hop street culture, Rodríguez Calero creates vibrant and multilayered canvasses that def easy categorization. Her work offers a masterful balance of the abstract and figurative, sacred and profane, the meditative and boldly graphic. Rodríguez Calero's original technique is called 'acrollage', a technique of layering glazes of luminous colors with rice and other kinds of paper. The blending of fermenting surfaces and stenciled patterns attains lustrous color and texture. Guest-curated by Alejandro Anreus, the installation includes 29 large acrolalge canvases, 19 smaller collages, 13 fotacrolés (altered photograph) on canvas board, and 3 works of mixed media on paper.
Notes: Catalog of the second exhibition in the Women Artists Retrospective Series, organized by el Museo del Barrio, New York, held from July 22 through October 17, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index of works illustrated.
Table of contents: title: Hip Hop and Metaphysics: Introductory Notes on Rodríguez Calero  -- Jorge Daniel Veneciano; title: Rodríguez Calero: Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos  -- Alejandro Anreus; title: Collages --; title: Acrollages --; title: Fotacrolés + Works on Paper --; title: Rodríguez Calero in Context --; title: Works in the Exhibition --; title: Index of Works Illustrated --; title: Contributors.; title: Hip hop y metafísica: Apuntes preliminares sobre la obra de Rodríguez Calero  -- Jorge Daniel Veneciano; title: Rodríguez Calero: Mártires urbanos y santos de la nuestros días  -- Alejandro Anreus; title: Collages --; title: Acrollages --; title: Fotacrolés + Works on Paper --; title: Rodríguez Calero en contexto --; title: Lista de obras en exhibición --; title: Índice de obras ilustradas --; title: Colaboradores.