ʻO ka mea pena Dominican ʻo Freddy Rodríguez, i hānau ʻia ma Santiago de los Caballeros i loko o kahi ʻohana hui like ʻole, ua nalowale ma ke kaiāulu Cornellian o Flushing, ma New York, kāna kūlanakauhale hānai mai 1963. Ma Manhattan, ua hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻo ia i ka Arts Students League me ka mea pena kiʻi kula ʻo Sidney Dickinson, a ma ke kula hou no ka noiʻi ʻana me John Dobbs lāua ʻo Carmen Cicero, nāna i hoʻolauna iā ia i ka geometry. Ua loaʻa iā ia ke kēkelē ma ke kiʻi textile mai ka Fashion Institute of Technology.
ʻO ka manawa nui o ka pena kiʻi a Freddy Rodríguez ʻo ia i nā kanahiku, i ka manawa, i hoʻohui ʻia i ke ʻano o Mondrian a me ka minimalism, ua hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻo ia i kahi abstraction geometric 'paʻakikī' o ka ikaika chromatic nui a, ʻaʻole koke, hoʻoulu ʻia e nā syncopated rhythms e hoʻāla ai i ke ao holoʻokoʻa. o ka Honua Hou, a ʻoi aku ka nui o ka Caribbean. Ua hoʻopau kēia pae i ka pōʻai o nā kiʻi pena haʻihaʻi a kū pololei, mai ka makahiki 1974, me nā poʻo inoa e like me 'African Love', 'Mulato de tal', 'Carnival Dance' a i ʻole 'Caribbean Princess'.
Ma hope o kēlā manawa nani maoli, i ka makahiki kanawalu, ua huli ka mea pena i kahi kiʻi ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi a me ka expressionist, e hoʻokūpaʻa ana i ke ʻano moʻokalaleo a me ka hōʻailona o kāna hana, ʻike ʻia i nā kiʻi a me nā collages, a me nā poʻo inoa e pili ana i ka hana Columbian. ʻO nā maroons a i ʻole ka dictatorship grotesque o Trujillo. He nui nā ʻōlelo e pili ana i nā mea kākau ʻAmelika Latin e like me Neruda, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rómulo Gallegos, Cortázar, García Márquez a i ʻole Vargas Llosa i kēia māhele. Kokoke i nā Dominicans ʻē aʻe e noho ana ma ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, e like me ka mea pena kiʻi kahiko ʻo Tito Canepa, i aʻo ʻia me Siqueiros, a i ʻole ka mea kālai kiʻi ʻo Bismarck Victoria, he kōkua manawa no Noguchi, ʻo kāna kūpaʻa i kona kaiāulu e hōʻike ana i kāna 'Flight 587 Memorial' (2006). ), he kia hoomanao no ko kakou mau hoa makaainana i haule ma Queens, i ka ulia o ka mokulele e holo ana no ka mokupuni.
Mai ka XNUMXs, ma hope o kekahi mau hale pule hale pule a me kekahi mau chasubles hoʻomana hoʻomana a me kahi ea o Matisse mai ka hale pule ʻo Vence, a me kekahi mau hana me ka leo pop a puni ka honua o ka baseball, ua hoʻi ʻo Freddy Rodríguez, ka mea maʻa mau, e hana i ka hauʻoli i loko. geometry, i loko o nā kiʻi pena o ka linear dynamism nui, kekahi o lākou me ke kāʻei gula.
ʻO Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, kahi hale kiʻi kiʻi o New York i ʻike i nā kiʻi ʻAmelika Latin, nāna i hoʻonohonoho i nā hōʻikeʻike poina ʻole e Figari, Xul Solar a me Esteban Lisa, a kahi e hōʻike nei kā mākou hoa Alejandro Corujeira i kēia manawa, ua hoʻoholo i ka hoʻokuʻu hou ʻana o ka Dominican. , a ma ke ano o kana hana mai na makahiki kanahiku mai. Ma waena o nā kiʻi kiʻi kiʻi āna i hana ai, maʻamau mai ia manawa, ʻo ka Museo del Barrio, ka Whitney, ka National Portrait Gallery a me ka Smithsonian ma Wakinekona, a me ka Museo de Arte de Ponce, ma Puerto Rico.
