Jorge Luis Rodriguez

Last updated

Jorge Luis Rodriguez is an American educator, painter, sculptor and mixed-media artist. Born in Puerto Rico, Rodriguez came to New York City when he was 19 years old, to live with his father and brother, hoping to expand his technical training with a more experimental style. Rodriguez worked as a Junior Art Director before attending School of Visual Arts and New York University getting his Bachelor Degree and Masters in Fine Arts respectively. [1]

Puerto Rico Unincorporated territory of the United States

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.

New York City Largest city in the United States

The City of New York, usually called either New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.

School of Visual Arts art school in New York

The School of Visual Arts is a for-profit art and design college in Manhattan, New York. It was founded in 1947, and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.

Rodriguez's work and style evolved over the years, spanning from op-art to abstraction and from two dimensional works to three dimensional sculptures and installations. The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs under Mayor Koch developed a Percent for Art Program in 1982. [2] Rodriguez was the first artist to be selected by the agency with his sculpture Growth. [3] [4] [5] [1] [6]

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is the department of the government of New York City dedicated to supporting New York City's cultural life. Among its primary missions is ensuring adequate public funding for non-profit cultural organizations throughout the five boroughs. The Department represents and serves non-profit cultural organizations involved in the visual, literary and performing arts; public-oriented science and humanities institutions including zoos, botanical gardens and historic and preservation societies; and creative artists who live and work within the City's five boroughs.

Ed Koch former mayor of New York City

Edward Irving Koch was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and television personality. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.

The term percent for art refers to a program, often a city ordinance, where a fee, usually some percentage of the project cost, is placed on large scale development projects in order to fund and install public art. The details of such programs vary from area to area. Percent for art programs are used to fund public art where private or specialized funding of public art is unavailable. Similar programs, such as "art in public places", attempt to achieve similar goals by requiring that public art be part of a project, yet they often allow developers to pay in-lieu fees to a public art fund as an alternative.

Related Research Articles

Brooklyn Academy of Music theater and concert hall in Brooklyn, New York City, United States

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in 1908.

Fresh Meadows, Queens Neighborhood of Queens in New York City

Fresh Meadows is a residential neighborhood in the northeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens. Fresh Meadows is located in the south part of Flushing and is bordered to the north by the Fresh Meadows Playground and Horace Harding Expressway, to the west by South Flushing and the sub-neighborhood of Hillcrest, to the east by Cunningham Park, and to the south by Union Turnpike and St. John's University. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 8 and is covered by ZIP Codes 11365 and 11366.

Public Art Fund is an independent, non-profit arts organization founded in 1977 by Doris C. Freedman. The organization presents contemporary art in New York City's public spaces through a series of highly visible artists' projects, new commissions, installations, and exhibitions that are emblematic of the organization's mission and innovative history.

Janette Sadik-Khan New York City public official

Janette Sadik-Khan is a former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (2007–2013) and an advisor on transportation and urban issues. She works for Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy established by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that advises mayors around the world to improve the quality of life for their residents. She serves as chairperson for the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), a coalition of the transportation departments of 40 large cities nationwide.

Food and water in New York City

In New York City, there is an extensive water supply system that supports several programs and infrastructure pertaining to the city's food supply. City officials, agencies, and organizations cooperate with rural farmers to grow food more locally, as well as protect waterways in the New York metropolitan area. The New York City Department of Education operates a school-time and summertime breakfast/lunch program. However, New York City is also deprived of supermarkets in several neighborhoods, and the city has combatted this issue by allowing extra street vendors to operate in the city. To encourage food safety, New York City also has a restaurant-grading system that it introduced in 2010. Because of its various food programs, New York City has become a model for food systems internationally.

Thelma Golden is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, United States. Golden joined the Museum as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs in 2000 before succeeding Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, the Museum’s former Director and President, in 2005. She is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.

Manny Vega American artist

Manny Vega is an American painter, illustrator, printmaker, muralist, mosaicist, and set and costume designer. His work portrays the history and traditions of the African Diaspora that exist in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Isaacs Houses

The Stanley M. Isaacs Houses is a public housing project for those of low to moderate incomes in Yorkville located just south of the neighborhood's northern limit at 96th Street. The Isaacs Houses and the Holmes Towers borders East Harlem, which has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States. The three public housing buildings in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, completed in 1965, are 24 stories tall and contain 635 apartments. The project is located between 93rd and 95th Streets with playground & ball courts from 95th-97th street, stretching from 1st Avenue to the FDR Drive. Architects Frederick G. Frost, Jr. & Associates designed the buildings. 45 percent of the apartments in Isaacs are set aside for tenants over the age of 62. Isaacs Houses is named for Stanley M. Isaacs, who served as Manhattan Borough President under Mayor LaGuardia and later in City Council for 20 years as minority leader.

Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal

The Whitehall Terminal is a ferry terminal in South Ferry section of Lower Manhattan, New York City, at the corner of South Street and Whitehall Street. It is used by the Staten Island Ferry, which connects the island boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island. The Whitehall Terminal is one of the ferry's terminals, the other being St. George Terminal on Staten Island.

Maren Hassinger is an African-American artist and educator. She is known for her sculpture, video, performance art, and public art in which she often uses materials that are natural or industrial. She is the director emeritus of the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Charles McGill was an artist based in Peekskill, New York.

Otto Neals American visual artist

Otto Neals is an African-American painter and sculptor. Originally from South Carolina, he came to NY at four years old and began painting as a child. He spent most of career working as an illustrator at the Brooklyn Post Office, and pursued independent art projects on nights and weekends. Now in his eighties, he still resides in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This self-taught artist still spends a full day creating his art just as he has done for over 76 years. Although he works out of his basement, he prefers his backyard when weather permits.

Jennifer McGregor is an American curator and arts planner. Based in New York, she is the Director of Arts and senior curator at Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the Bronx, New York City. There she curates exhibitions and oversees performances that relate to nature, culture and site. Recent projects include an immersive outdoor installation by Chris Doyle, The Lightening – A Project for Wave Hill's Aquatic Garden and the exhibition Field Notes featuring projects by Matthew Friday, David McQueen and Michelle Stuart. McGregor started working in the field as the first director of the New York City's Percent for Art Program between 1983 and 1990. She has served as a consultant on many public art and policy projects including a public art plan for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2012; a public art plan for Laramie, Wyoming, in 2015, and project management for New York City's Flight 587 Memorial in 2006; managed the commissioned artwork by Daniel Hauben for the New Instructional Building at the Bronx Community College, and more.

<i>Harriet Tubman Memorial</i> (New York City)

The Harriet Tubman Memorial, also known as Swing Low, located in Manhattan in New York City, honors the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The intersection at which it stands was previously a barren traffic island, and is now known as "Harriet Tubman Triangle". As part of its redevelopment, the traffic island was landscaped with plants native to New York and to Tubman's home state of Maryland, representing the land which she and her Underground Railroad passengers travelled across.

Meschac Gaba is a Beninese conceptual artist based in Rotterdam and Cotonou. His installations of everyday objects whimsically juxtapose African and Western cultural identities and commerce. He is best known for The Museum of Contemporary African Art 1997–2002, an autobiographical 12-room installation acquired and displayed by the Tate Modern in 2013. He has also exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Blaise Tobia is a contemporary artist and photographer who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married to sculptor, Virginia Maksymowicz. Together they maintain TandM Arts Studio.

Janet Henry is a visual artist based in New York City.

Chopped Cheese, also known as "a chop cheese", is a type of sandwich originating from New York City. Found in bodegas throughout the Bronx and Harlem, it is made on a grill with ground beef, onions, and topped by melted cheese and served with lettuce, tomatoes, and condiments on a hero roll. It is compared with the cheesesteak and a cheeseburger, often thought of as a mixture of both, and is said to represent the culture of New York.

Karin Giusti is an Italian sculptor and installation artist.

Rachel Owens is an American artist. She is best known for her multi-media sculptures and installations, which often incorporate a social component. Many of her works are made from crushed glass. She lives and works in New York, NY, and is an Assistant Professor of Art and Design at Purchase College, SUNY.

References

  1. 1 2 "Review of Jorge Luis Rodriguez at Hunter". On-Verge. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  2. ↑ "Percent for Art - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs". www.nyc.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  3. ↑ "Jorge Luis Rodriguez - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs". www.nyc.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  4. ↑ Gonzalez, David (2016-07-10). "After 31 Lonely Years, a Sculpture in East Harlem Will Have Company". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  5. ↑ Mcgill, Douglas C. (1985-06-27). "IN EAST HARLEM, FIRST 'PERCENT' ART". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  6. ↑ "Lessons from 30 Years of NYC's Percent for Art Program". Hyperallergic. 2015-06-23. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.