Gloria Rodriguez Calero


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Rodriguez Calero (also known as “RoCa”) is a Nuyorican artist working as a painter, collagist, and photographer based in New York.[1]

Gloria Rodriguez Calero

Rodriguez_Calero
Born

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

NationalityPuerto Rican
Known forpainter, collagist and photographer
Websitehttps://www.rodriguezcalero.com/

Early life, education, and career

Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in 1959, but raised in as a Roman Catholic in Bryooklyn, New York. She studied under Lorenzo Homar at the Puerto Rican Artists at the Instituto de Cultura, Escuela de Artes Plasticas, and at the Arts Students League of New York with Leo Manso.[2]

Residencies and Grants

She held a National Endowment for the Arts residency at Taller Boricua with fellow artists Marcos Dimas, Gilberto Hernandez, Nestor Otero, Jose Rodriguez, Fernando Salicrup, Jorge Soto, and Manny Vega.[3]She has also had residencies at the Brandywine Workshop Center for the Visual Arts (PA, 1999), and Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper (NJ, 2000).[4] She recieved the Brooklyn Arts & Culture Association Painting Award from the Brooklyn Museum and Belle Cramer Memorial Prize for Abstract Painting from the National Association of Women Artists. In 2008, she received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2008.[5]

She has also received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts.[6]

Honors and recognition

Her work has been featured in New Jersey Networks Public Television State of the Arts Series, “SIGN OF THE TIMES” in 2008.[6]

Exhibitions

In 2015, Rodriguez Calero was the first Nuyorican female artist to receive in depth survey of her work at El Museo del Barrio in New York which was guest curated by Alejandro Anreus entitled Gloria Rodriguez Calero: Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos.[7] The exhibit included 29 large acrollage canvases, 19 smaller collages, 13 fotacrolés (altered photography) on canvas board, and 3 works of mixed media on paper. The exhibition was be accompanied by a brochure and a scholarly catalogue.[8] The exhibit was reviewed and was given an honorable mention by Hyperallergic of the 20 best NYC exhibits.[9]

Style and Technique

Calero has developed a distinct original technique called “acrollage”. She employs a variety of papers, colorful glazes of paint and acrylic mediums, appropriated prints which are layered on the canvas creating striking and highly graphic yet painterly compositions.[10] These were turned into plastic skins that often resemble monoprints.[11]

There is a dichotomy in Calero’s work which bears qualities of both classical and contemporary elements. These include influences of surrealist collage, Catholic iconography, medieval religious painting, as well as hip-hop and street culture. Her work offers a balance of the abstract and figurative, sacred and profane, the meditative and boldly graphic. Her work employs bold color and carefully arranged dynamic compositions while offering an empathetic gaze on the her subject – subjects of the society she lives in. She embraces and celebrates ethnic groups, as well as LGBT community. Her work explores Afro-Hispanic Imagery and barrio life and demonstrates a belief that everyone, even the most marginalized have dignity and inner worth regardless of social class.[12] Figures in her works preach the gospel for today, reinterpreting community and providing content for the work that is ethnic, political and spiritual and thus at odds with much of the deconstructionist contemporary art of the day.[7]

Solo Exhibitions List

re:tratos urbanos rodríguez calero , Gallery Space at NYU Wagner. New York, New York 2023 Curator: Frankie Cresioni[13]

Rodríguez Calero: Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos, El Museo Del Barrio. New York, NY 2015 – 2016, Curator: Alejandro Anreus[12]

RoCa: Jersey Style, Project Gallery. Jersey City Museum, Jersey City. New Jersey, 2008 – 2009. Curator: Rocio Aranda-Alvarado          

Evoke 2 Provoke, Crossroads Gallery. South Bend, Indiana 2007 Curator: The Institute of Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame

American Microcosm, Elizabeth B. McGraw Arts Center. Newark Academy. Livingston, New Jersey 2006 CURATOR: Elaine Brodie

VernacularVisions, Taller Boricua. Julia de Burgos Cultural Center. El Barrio, New York 2006 Curator: Marcos Dimas

Urban Exposures, Bronx River Arts Center. Bronx, New York. 2006 Curator: Gail Nathan

Familiar Faces, Atlantic Gallery. SoHo, New York. 2006 Curator:: Pamela Talese

Idealized Subjects, CENTRO Gallery. Hunter College New York, New York. 2005 Curator: Jose Vidal

Provocative Personalities, WBGO Gallery. Newark, New Jersey. 2005 Curator: Dorathaan Kirk

Inspired Gatherings, Union Theological Seminary. New York, New York, 2004. Curator: Troy Messenger

Fragmented Image, Runnels Gallery. Eastern New Mexico University. Portales, New Mexico, 2003 Curator: Professor Haig David-West

The Image to Inspire, The Tomasulo Gallery. Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey. 2001. Curator: Valerie Larko

Spirituals and the Blues , ARS Gallery. Union City, New Jersey. 2000. Curators: Ben Ortiz and Gustavo Valdez

Urban Chronicles, Mabel Smith Douglas Library Gallery. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1999, JURORS: Emma Amos, Judith K. Brodsky, Toby MacLennan, Joan Marter, Isabel Nazario, Ferris Olin, & Beryl Smith

Images / Imagenes, Perfecto Oyala Biblioteca Criolla and Cultural Center. Jersey City, New Jersey,1999 Curator: Sonia Araujo

Wild Variety, John Jay Gallery. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. New York, New York,1999, Curators: Orlanda Brugnola and Frank Gimpaya

Transformed Fragments, Cultural Arts Center. SUNY Rockland Community College Gallery, Suffern, New York. 1999, CURATOR: Eugenio Espinosa  

Selection of Images, The American Gallery. New York, New York. 1999. Curator: Ron Shipmon

Acrollage Paintings, The Sculpture Showcase. New Hope, Pennsylvania. Curator: Larry Leckerman

Shrouded in Mystery, Taller Boricua Gallery. Julia de Burgos Cultural Center. New York, New York, 1998, Curators: Marcos Dimas and Fernando Salicrup

Figures: Torn and Pasted, The Jersey City Museum. Jersey City, New Jersey. 1997 Curator: Alejandro Anreus

Recent Work, Francisco Oller | Jose Campeche Gallery. Taller Puertorriqueño Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1996 Curator: Doris Noguiera-Rogers

Signature of the Soul, Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library Gallery. Fair Lawn, New Jersey 1992, Curator: Penny Kaplan

Forces Unseen, Taller Boricua Gallery. New York, New York. 1991. Curator: Marcos Dimas

Paintings and Collages, Afrique-Caribe Gallery. Jersey City, New Jersey 1990    

Effigy, Eventos: Space for Living Art Gallery. New York, New York, 1989 Curator: Nestor Otero

Paintings and Works on Paper, Living Room Gallery at Saint Peter’s Church. New York, New York 1987, Curator: John S. Damm

Bibliography

Garcia, Jordan, Meet Rodríguez Calero, CanvasREBEL. interview 2024

Artist Snapshot: Rodríguez Calero. Interview with Stephanie Cassidy, Linea Studio Notes from The Art Students League of New York. interview 2023

Jones, Victoria Emily, A theological reading of Rodríguez Calero’s acrollages, Art & Theology: Revitalizing the Christian imagination through painting, poetry, music, and more September 25, 2022 interview

re:tratos urbanos rodríguez calero Gallery Space at NYU Wagner, New York, New York. catalogue 2022.

Rewriting HerStory: Women in the Visual Arts, Drawing Rooms. Jersey City, New Jersey. catalogue 2022.

i•den•ti•ty, Merion Hall Gallery at Saint Joseph's University. Philadelphia PA. catalogue Panel discussion. watch

Rodriguez Calero Urban Martyrs + Latter Day Saints, Rodriguez Calero Martires Urbanos y santos de nuestro dias, El Museo del Barrio | Women Artists Retrospective Series. catalogue 2015[12]

RazA con “A”, Gallery Space at NYU Wagner. New York, New York. catalogue 2013

Ugwo, Uzomah, An Artistic Conversation with Rodríguez Calero Arte Realizzata September 20, 2022 interview 2020.

Nikkal, Nancy, Rodríguez Calero Collage and Acrollage, Art of Collage, Nancy Egol Nikkai's View on Art, Artists & Fine Art of Collage May 17, 2020

Unapanta, Richard, (producer) Puerto Rican Voices: Season 3 Episode 4 (RoCa: Rodríguez Calero). CENTRO. Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Hunter College 2016

Rodriguez Calero Oral History Project. Institute for Latino Studies, Notre Dame University. Notre Dame, Indiana 2006.

Edwards, Amber (senior producer) Sign of the Times. State of the Arts. New Jersey Network Public Television & Radio 2005.

Edwards, Amber (senior producer) Liquitex 50th Anniversary. State of the Arts. New Jersey Network Public Television & Radio 2003.

Fragmented Image. Eastern New Mexico University. Portales, New Mexico. TV Station KENW - TV, Channel 3, PBS Affliate. Interview with Don Criss, Director of TV Production Services.

Mady, Beatrice, Serious Whimsy Exhibition. Virtual Exhibit, Fine Arts Gallery, Saint Peter’s University. 2020

Colon, Jessica M Rodriguez, Breast Across Motherhood. The Madonna's Breast and the Surprise of the Real: From Ideal to Embodied. Demeter Press, 2020

Mendoza, Alex, Political Art Activism Arteration 2019.

AFineLyne, Culture and the People: El Museo Del Barrio, 1969 - 2019. Gotham ToGo Article. Art & Culture, 2018.

Exhibition Artwork Honors Community Diversity Harlem News. Harlem Community Newspapers. Vol 23 No 26 June 28 - July 4, 2018, page 11

Meier, Allison, Saintly Collages of Everyday People, Hyperallergic August 7, 2015

Holmes Jessica, Rodríguez Calero Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos, The Brooklyn Rail (September). by Jessica Holmes September 2015

Edited by Lauren Rosati and Mary Anne Staniszewski Exit Art, Alternative Histories New York Art Spaces 1960 to 2010. page 126 - 127 Taller Boricua, page 238 - 239 Co-published by Exit Art and The MIT Press 2013.

Gregory, Mary, Here, Not There. Part Three of the Triad Series: ArtSlant New York News. November 17, 2013

Gregory, Mary, By The Numbers: More Or Less - Part Two of the Triad Series: ArtSlant New York News, October 13, 2013.

Gregory, Mary, Abstract Lives - Part One of the Triad Series: ArtSlant New York News. September 15, 2013

Idealized Subjects at Centro Gallery. Daily News. Viva New York Update. Tuesday, ART, page 2. New York, New York, November 22, 2005. 

References

  1. ^ "RODRIGUEZ CALERO: Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos". El Museo del Barrio. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  2. ^ Magnifico, Lauren (2007). "Rodriguez Calero, interviewed by Lauren Magnifico, ILS 208, February 28, 2007". Center for Latino Studies, Notre Dame.
  3. ^ Staff, Clarion. "Honoring 40 Years of Centro: the "nu-YO-Rican" Print Project". PSC CUNY. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  4. ^ vínculo, Obtener. "Rodríguez Calero show at Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service". Tertulia Latina. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  5. ^ "Rodriguez Calero - TertuliaLatinaNYC". cargocollective.com. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  6. ^ a b "Rodriguez Calero". CentroPR. 2022-10-21. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  7. ^ a b Center for Puerto Rican Studies (2016). "Puerto Rican Voices: Season 3 Episode 4 (RoCa: Rodríguez Calero)". vimeo.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "RODRIGUEZ CALERO: Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos". El Museo del Barrio. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  9. ^ Hyperallergic (2015-12-16). "Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  10. ^ "Collection: Gloria Rodríguez Calero Papers | Centro Library and Archives - ArchivesSpace". centroarchives.hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  11. ^ CUNY TV (2015-07-23). Independent Sources: Artistic NYC. Retrieved 2024-07-29 – via YouTube.
  12. ^ a b c Veneciano, Jorge Daniel (2015). Rodriguez Calero: Urban Martyrs + Latter Day Saints [Martires urbanos y santos de nuestros dias] (in English and Spanish). New York: El Museo del Barrio. ISBN 978-1-882454-82-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  13. ^ re:tratos urbanos rodríguez calero. New York: NYU Wagner. 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)