Opening Reception: June 24, 5:30-7:30 pm

COOPER COLE is pleased to present Father Time, a solo exhibition of the work of Daniel Rios Rodriguez. This is the artist’s third exhibition at the gallery.

Daniel Rios Rodriguez takes inspiration from his environment, his children, and his dreams. His paintings are a unique combination of abstracted images created using common and found materials as well as paint. The work intentionally touches on disparate motifs from the history of painting including landscape, still life, memento mori, and self portraiture. These varied and abstracted constructions serve to narrate Rodriguez’s personal life in a way that bridges the gap between common experiences and the world of painting as exploration.

Rios Rodriguez’s works are extensions of his context; the materials he uses are purchased or found in his immediate environment, and often include found wood, stone, terracotta, glass, rope, and nails, in addition to paint and canvas. The artist views them as a type of symbolic self-portraiture in

Link: https://coopercolegallery.com/exhibition/2022_daniel-rios-rodriguez_father-time/