ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – Spring/Summer 2024
Pronouns: (she/her)
Photo by Tara Geyer, Courtesy ALMA | LEWIS.
My practice is about my relationship with spirituality. I tell stories of this relationship through materials, and their power in manifesting embodiment. I use abstraction in my work as a means to connect the physical with the unbound—the unseen, but felt in the history of our bodies. I am interested in ashé (vital natural energy) and the many forms of potential that art can have. My research questions how art objects can become transformed into living beings imbued with meaning and how a viewer can become implicated in this existence… I want to create a visceral experience within the viewer so that even if they don’t fully understand the cultural references of my work, they can feel these stories through materiality, form and color in a bodily way, in an ancestral way.
María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez (she/her) received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2015 and MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2020. Rodríguez Jiménez has participated in residencies such as the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture (2016), SOMA Summer (2019) and Pivô Arte e Pesquisa (2023).
Her work has been exhibited in institutions such as the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), and The Alabama Contemporary Art Center
(Mobile, AL), among others. She was a recipient of The Fulbright Research Fellowship (2021) and the NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Fellowship (2022), where she collaborated with Candomblé dancers and practitioners in Brazil. She currently lives and works in Queens, New York.
Find Maria on Instagram: @mareyuh_
