Al Amanecer

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