About the Artist
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“I predict an hour when the term Women In Art will be as strange sounding a topic as the title Men In Art would be now.”
-Cecilia Beaux
Audrey Rodriguez is a fine artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and was born and raised in South Texas. At the University of Texas at Brownsville, the thematic focus of her undergraduate art was the depiction of the drug cartel violence raging along the shared border of Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico.
She found her artistic voice after directly witnessing the inhumane treatment of Central American and Mexican immigrants at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol officers. She felt limited by her technique, so in order to fully realize her ideas and concepts she sought academic training at a traditional atelier.
She studied under Jacob Collins at the Grand Central Atelier, where she learned time-honored techniques in painting and drawing. Audrey graduated from the Grand Central Atelier in 2016.
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Education:
2016 Grand Central Atelier
Intensive study of drawing and painting
Core Program Graduate
2012 The University of Texas at Brownsville/ TSC
Major: Art Education
Bachelor of Arts EC-12
Work Experience:
2012-2016 Salmagundi Art Club
2013-2015 Grand Central Atelier
Work Study
2012 Port Isabel Junior High
Student Teacher
2011 Volunteer for Brownsville Artists League
Taught summer classes for elementary students.
Exhibitions:
2017 Wrap Me Up: Small Works Show
2016 GCA End of Year Exhibition
2016 Pieto Biennial: International Juried Art Exhibition of Still Life and Trompe L’oeil
2015 Portrait Painting Demonstration and Art Show
South Padre Island, TX
2015 Observations: Solo Show
New York Public Library
203 West 115th St, New York, NY 10026
2015 SCNY Non-Member Exhibition
2015 Eleventh Street Arts: AI FIORI: The Alla Prima Floral Sketch
http://www.eleventhstreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/#/past/
2014 Eleventh Street Arts: Inaugural Group Show
http://www.eleventhstreetarts.com/exhibitions-1/#/past/
2014 SCNY Non-Member Exhibition
2012 El Chupacabras Art Show
Awarded “Best of Show”
A South Texas University and College Art Competition
Juried and Curated by Carlos G. Gomez, Angel Cabrales, and Samantha Isabel Garcia
2012 21st Student Juried Show
Awarded “Best of Show”
Juried by Javier Dragustinovis- artist and curator
2012 Fourth Annual Artopia
Awarded “Best of Show”
Student Union- Patricia Longoria
Juried by Samantha Isabel Garcia- Rusteburg Gallery Director
2011 First Annual Student Salon Exhibition
Received “Jurors Recognition”
UTB Arts department / Center for Civic Engagement
2011 Despierta Senior Show Exhibition by
Adriana Rodriguez and Delfino Martinez
Rusterberg Gallery
2009 The MSA Talent and Art Show
Co-hosted and showed work in the event
2008 Brownsville Historical Museum Collaborative Art Contest
3rd Place Ribbon for Art Mural- A contest held by the Brownsville Historical Museum that shows the historical aspects of Brownsville
Community Activities:
2011 IDEA in San Benito
Commissioned artwork
2011 Third Annual Halloween Fair
Hosted by the UTB/TSC Center for Civic Engagement
Volunteer face painter
2011 Galleria 409 Art walk
Displayed and showed artwork
2011 Chalk Art Festival
Hosted by the Brownsville Children’s Museum
Volunteer face painter
2011 Artopia III
Hosted by The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College’s Student Union
Participant
2010 Second Annual Halloween Fair
Hosted by the UTB/TSC Center for Civic Engagement
Volunteer face painter
2009 Alternative Spring Break
Hosted by the UTB/TSC Center for Civic Engagement
Volunteered to design, manage, and help paint two Murals
2009 Planting Seeds of Hope
Volunteered for a Border Wall Corridor Beautification Effort
