Author: Bryan C Rodriguez

Artist Statement

Biography 

Bryan Rodriguez is a Colombian-American who is currently enrolled at New York City College of Technology. He is a communication design AAS student who is pursuing a career in the modern art. He is looking to use his education in the arts to create artistic forms of modern art to stop animal cruelty. Animal cruelty is neglected across all social and economic frontiers. He has make works with contour drawings that give people life in a drawing/ This future pioneer is trying to help expand the awareness of animal cruelty and saves many lives of endangered animals.

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Biomorphic

noun
a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan:

Joan Miró
Woman and Dog in Front of the Moon (Femme et chien devant la lune)
1935, published in 1936

“It was through contact with Surrealist poets and painters in Paris in the 1920s that Joan Miró evolved his visual language of signs. With curvilinear lines and biomorphic shapes, he sought to meld the realm of the unconscious to essential life forms, veering toward abstraction but always maintaining links to humanity, nature, and the cosmos.”… Read More...

BRIC Museum

In the BRIC museum, I chose a piece by Majeed who is known for the colors of green with various collages. Majeed as a kind of speculative practice, one that appropriates the neo-colonizing tendencies of the digital realm and reimagines a kind of visual past-future-what would or should be-centered around the feminine. In the phrase above about Majeed tells the way his artwork is described. Umber expresses the use of digital photos and combines them with organic shapes and lines. The reason I chose this piece was for its radiant colors and its abstract dismemberment of a body. The pattern … Read More...

Project #3 Completed

 

“If you go through life and you don’t find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.”– Octavia Spencer. This amazing quote by Octavia Spencer gives great meaning to how we view our great city. The majority of the world is lost in technology and other problems in their life. We as humans and people of conscious minds should take time in our day to just look around and enjoy the beauty our great city has to offer. The beauty that I got to see and get more into depth is Dumbo Brooklyn. … Read More...

Project #3 Noir

Discover

Define

picture nior

In project 3 we took a dramatic picture and applied a noir filter that creates depth.

Deliver

This painting was the second last part of project 3 and toom some time to be able to create the depth that was needed. These types of paintings relate t0 early painting that focused on monochromatic colors.

This GIF was the final step of this project and I think it brings that noir detail. Throughout this project, I was happy to see the final product of the painting stage. The painting process really remind me of the Guernica by Pablo Picasso… Read More...

BHS Field Trip Reflection

Collage from gallery

In this collage, you see the contrast from the white text on a black background which gives it more depth. The exhibition tells the lives and work of Muslims in Brooklyn and the other many ethnicities, cultures, and nationalities. Kameelah Janan Rasheed wants us to engage with all of the Muslim experiences in Brooklyn. Through this college, it shows you normal English and Muslim text and spread out to convey a message. … Read More...

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