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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of New Mexico-based artist, Mark A. Rodriguez.
After a four year hiatus from exhibiting in LA, Rodriguez will present an entirely new body of work which revolves around the postage stamp, specifically the Forever Stamp. Introduced into circulation in 2007 in the US, the Forever Stamp possesses the unique quality of never expiring. It can always be used as a first class, one ounce stamp regard-less of when it was purchased.
For this body of work, Rodriguez has created “frames” for the stamps, which exist somewhere between painting and sculpture. Fashioned out of sculptamold and then painted with layers of acrylic paint, the frames-cum-paintings playfully read like small, multicolored cumuluses, with uneven surfaces, as if they were organic forms or slabs of outsized cottage cheese. Approximately twenty times the size of the stamp, the artworks all but eclipse the stamps, reducing them to details, and almost...More
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Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of New Mexico-based artist, Mark A. Rodriguez.
After a four year hiatus from exhibiting in LA, Rodriguez will present an entirely new body of work which revolves around the postage stamp, specifically the Forever Stamp. Introduced into circulation in 2007 in the US, the Forever Stamp possesses the unique quality of never expiring. It can always be used as a first class, one ounce stamp regard-less of when it was purchased.
For this body of work, Rodriguez has created “frames” for the stamps, which exist somewhere between painting and sculpture. Fashioned out of sculptamold and then painted with layers of acrylic paint, the frames-cum-paintings playfully read like small, multicolored cumuluses, with uneven surfaces, as if they were organic forms or slabs of outsized cottage cheese. Approximately twenty times the size of the stamp, the artworks all but eclipse the stamps, reducing them to details, and almost...More
