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Me | Surge Mag Hawaii
April 26, 2012 |
Thanks Nicholas Seymour and Surge Magazine in Hawaii for the interview, muchos mahalos #grateful.http://issuu.com/Surgemedia/docs/50surge/165 |
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Sesame St. X Known Gallery
April 26, 2012 |
Thanks to @knowngallery and Patrick Martinez for the invite. This is my piece for the Sesame Street benefit group show @Knowngallery. More info here, go see it if you're in L.A. this weekend: http://www.knowngallery.com/exhibitions/current/ |
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Me | Pen & Paper | Hypebeast
April 26, 2012 |
Thank you Hypebeast and Brandon Shigeta for the feature! View it here: http://hypebeast.com/2012/04/pen-paper-samuel-rodriguez/ |
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Daily Shinanigans
April 16, 2012 |
Been keeping productive with the familia and work, from graphic design at Cukui Clothing, contributing illustrator at Hypebeast, to hashing out this work for upcoming shows. Feeling grateful for having these platforms to do what I love. To see more of my daily happenings, follow me on instagram @shortyfatz |
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March Instagram Sketches
April 3, 2012 |
To see more of my daily sketches, follow me on instagram @shortyfatz |
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MultEye
March 12, 2012 |
Currently in my personal art, I am working on a body of work that involves hybridity of ethnicities, race, styles and cultures. I plan on exploring this topic for the next few years if not for my lifespan, as it is personal to me since I am considered “Mexican” and that culture itself is mestizo (mixed). On the other hand, this is a hot topic in today’s society since so many different ethnicities are breeding, including myself having a daughter of “Mexican” and “Vietnamese” decent. I question these labels and associations and believe they are as abstract and relative as painting and composing on a canvas itself. Here is one of the few I've recently started. |
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L.A. TRANSPORTATION: ART FOR THE EXPO LINE UPDATE
March 7, 2012 |
Originally posted and written by Heidi Zeller for L.A. County Metro Transportation Authority's Blog: "Samuel Rodriguez presents images with fragments of building facades, vintage rail cars, human figures, and fictional characters in his artwork for the Expo Line’s Jefferson/USC Station.
Each of the 20 art panels is visually divided by the silhouette of bike frame parts, resembling the layout of a comic book. The artist chose bicycle imagery to emphasize the human-powered modes of transportation alongside the rail line. Each panel is an invitation to engage the mind in a playful fantasy along the route between starting point and destination. (Here’s a link to more information about Rodriguez’s work for Jefferson/USC Station.)"
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"Original design for one of the 20 art panels comprising Urban Dualities at Jefferson/USC Station. Unusual juxtapositions—an arm sticking out of a car window, a man riding a bike and a mythical amphibian-like creature—are intended to capture both literal images seen while traveling on public transit and those inside riders’ daydreaming minds." |
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"Hand-glazed ceramic tiles are matched to the artist’s original artwork designs at the mosaic fabricator, Mosaïka Art & Design." |
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"Highly skilled artisans at Mosaïka Art & Design cut each piece of hand-glazed ceramic tile into tiny mosaics and place them into art panels." |
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"Team of artisans work on the art panels at Mosaïka’s studio" |
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"Detail of Urban Dualities" |
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"Art panel hanging from a crane, being installed in its new home on the station platform." |
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