UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
We believe everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that makes space for us all.
MessageAl Amanecer
- January 17, 2025 - May 17, 2025
Installation View Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Documentation by Krystal Ramirez
Installation View Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Documentation by Krystal Ramirez
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present AL AMANECER, an exhibition centered on a new painting by Gabriella Rodriguez. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Rodriguez has always enriched her art with a melange of local influences—the 702 area code, Mexican snack foods, idiosyncratic personal references to casinos on Las Vegas Boulevard—as well as her trademark round-headed figures, and references to Mesoamerican and Caribbean history. With AL AMANECER she advances her technique, realizing her self-recognized “complex vocabulary” through a fresh combination of painting and fabric.
In the artist’s own words, this artwork says:
A little bit here, a little bit over there.
Banderitas de coco
The smell of smoked poblano chiles in a plastic shopping bag.
When the sun rises over the valley
That fuzzy feeling when you receive a balloon.
The mystery of what a seashell has been through by the time it ends up on the shore, the idea of how a scar comes in the form of a pearl, and the one tile in the bathroom that stares back at you.
Being together
