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Los Angeles Center For Digital Art: SNAP TO GRID los angeles

NOVEMBER 12th - DECEMBER 5th 2009

LACDA announces an open call for our sixth annual SNAP TO GRID, featuring digital art and photography. All entries are printed on 8.5"x11" heavyweight paper and shown in our gallery arranged in a grid.
All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is located in the Gallery Row area of downtown Los Angeles, 107 West Fifth Street between Main and Spring.

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Vivarium Gallery: Still Life 01 & 04 vancouver

OCTOBER 10th - NOVEMBER 9th 2009

  Please join us at the VIVARIUM GALLERY for a reception party for Christopher Rodrigues, Saturday, October 10th from 6-9. On display until November 9th are the artist proofs of Still Life 01 & Still Life 04 as well as a Personal Altar. The digital Cibachrome prints, sourcing still life flower paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, were first publicly exhibited in March 2009 at the SCOPE Art Fair in New York. Christopher's Personal Altar aims to gain a deeper understanding of the old tradition of Still Life in Contemporary Art, through the practice of altar making.  Altar making is a common tradition that bridges all religions.  Beyond organized religion, personal Altars can be found in many house-holds around the world. This summer the Vancouver audience was given the opportunity to learn about and examine the Dutch Golden Age of painting, in a beautiful curated exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.  This exhibition extended many peoples understanding of the visual language of Still Life, a language that is necessary to interpret Christopher's work.
DIRECTIONS TO VIVARIUM GALLERY: 2130 Yew Street, one block west of Arbutus, between 5th & 6th on the east side of the street. Wheelchair accessible, converted window-front gallery on the ground floor.

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RARE Gallery: Still Land - Ryan Brennan & Christopher Rodrigues - new york

INDEFINITELY PENDING

Christopher uses the computer and Photoshop as his artistic mediums in three ongoing series of works -- Planets, Islands, Still Lifes -- that examine the relationship between Nature and Technology as well as photography and painting. Employing techniques that resemble collage and painting, he absents the camera from the process of creating his photographs. The results, printed as Cibachromes and face-mounted to Plexiglas, are both hyper-real and fantastical, connecting to traditional notions of the still life and landscape while looking forward to a digitally enhanced universe. Each of the three series is produced in an edition of seven. Chris will participate in his second exhibition at RARE this fall. RARE Gallery is located on 521 W. 26th Street, New York  (212) 268-1520

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Vivarium Gallery: Planet 11 vancouver

MAY 9th - JUNE 5th 2009

On display at the Vivarium Gallery from May 11th to June 11th will be a new work by Christopher Rodrigues. Planet 11 is a digital cibachrome print 40" X 50". This planet is the most recent image from his exploration of contemporary landscape using Photoshop. This landscape began in 2000 and will be continued as a life time project.
The Vivarium Gallery rests in the affluent neighborhood of Kitsilano, Vancouver and was co-founded by Jamie Griffiths and Christopher Rodrigues. The VIVARIUM GALLERY is an online gallery with a 'real' ground level window space to hang 2D visual art, present 3D art objects, and with a 12x12ft rear projection screen for video projection installations. New Artists will exhibit single, large works in the 'real' space, which will be archived and sold online.
DIRECTIONS TO VIVARIUM GALLERY: Street level converted store-front studio 2130 Yew Street (one block west of Arbutus) between 5th & 6th on the east side of the street. Ground floor and wheelchair accessible.

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SCOPE Art Fair:Scope NY: RARE Gallery new york

MARCH 4th - MARCH 8th 2009

At SCOPE NY 2009, RARE Gallery will be showing three digital cibachrome prints, from my exploration of contemporary landscape & still life, using Photoshop. RARE Gallery is located on 521 W. 26th Street, New York  (212) 268-1520

 

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Vivarium Gallery:Paths of the Sea vancouver

AUGUST 1st - SEPTEMBER 1st 2008

Please join us for the opening of the VIVARIUM GALLERY; a new gallery in the affluent neighborhood of Kitsilano, Vancouver, founded by Jamie Griffiths and Christopher Rodrigues .A diptych, by Christopher Rodrigues, will be the first work to show at the VIVARIUM GALLERY. The two 80" X 96" paintings were worked up from ball-point pen sketches produced on Wreck Beach during the summer of 2007; translated to paint over the autumn, winter and spring. The work considers the element of water in relation to the human body and mind; metaphorically equating the creation process and deep-sea-fishing. The diptych exhibited at the Vivarium Gallery through August, depict four chimera from the sea; each couple witnessing the conception of their child. The narrative pauses for a moment, while these creatures embrace, as their paths cross under the sea.
The VIVARIUM GALLERY is an online gallery with a 'real' ground level window space to hang 2D visual art, present 3D art objects, and with a 12x12ft rear projection screen for video projection installations. New Artists will exhibit single, large works in the 'real' space, which will be archived and sold online.
DIRECTIONS TO VIVARIUM GALLERY: Street level converted store-front studio 2130 Yew Street (one block west of Arbutus) between 5th & 6th on the east side of the street. Ground floor and wheelchair accessible.

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INCUS Album Cover: INCUS: Fire & Bone boston

JULY 11th 2008

Competed the artwork for the front and back cover of the new album, Fire & Bone recently released by INCUS.

 

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Los Angeles Center For Digital Art: SNAP TO GRID los angeles

SEPTEMBER 13th - OCTOBER 4th 2007

In a historically unprecedented exhibition participants each upload one image to be printed on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.
After the exhibition the images and artist information will be available to gallery visitors to view in our artist portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from the portfolios, and will also be available for review by area gallerists, curators and arts journalists. Prints can be made available to buyers on an as needed basis (if there is interest in an art work the artist will be contacted and a price will be determined).
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is located in the Gallery Row area of downtown Los Angeles, 107 West Fifth Street between Main and Spring.

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St John's Anglican Church: Dedication of Labyrinth Picture in Memory of Eric Paryas kanata

SUNDAY, JUNE 24th 2007

Dedication ceremony- Sunday, June 24th 2007. A 20" X 30" Digital Cibachrome print has been commissioned by the Paryas Family and was dedicated by the Rev. David Clunie, on June 24th, 2007, alongside St John's Labyrinth. Both were donated to the Anglican Parish of March by the Paryas family, in memory of their son and brother, Eric Robert Henry Paryas. In addition, a limited edition of 20, 11" X 14" Digital Cibachrome prints was produced. To add a print to your collection please send an e-mail to: pmparyas@hotmail.com

ST JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH- 325 Sandhill Road, Kanata, ON K2K 1X7

C. EULE DANCE BENEFIT: C. Eule Dance 2007 new york

JUNE 8th 2007

C. Eule Dance is a non-profit modern dance company that collaborates with local musicians and visual artists to create exciting and unique performances, accessible to dance connoisseurs and novices alike. Along with concert performances, C. Eule Dance also offers free performances and workshops for the community. This year, we are very excited to be presenting our company's performance season at the brand new Ailey Citigroup Theater in midtown held on June 30th and July 1st. In June, C. Eule Dance will hold our annual benefit party on June 8th that will include performances and a live auction. For the first time, we are employing an online to live auction format. Bidding on items in this auction is an exciting and worthwhile chance to support the arts! Another exciting addition--this year, C. Eule Dance has teamed up with i.HUG, an organization that aids disadvantaged and orphaned children in Uganda by providing them with an education, access to healthcare, and an environment that fosters their physical, social and emotional development. www.ihugfoundation.org. A percentage of the proceeds will go to this remarkable organization. SO start your bid now on one of many great items up for auction, and then join us for the big party in June where the bidding will continue LIVE!

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FEBRUARY 1st - APRIL 29th 2007

Curated by: Jodi Panas, Corliss Parker. IPTAR WEST- 140 W. 97th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus) Featuring work by: Annie Heckman, Asia Ingalls, Melanie Jelacic, Jose Muchaypina, Max Razdow & Christopher Rodrigues. Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (Art, Psychoanalysis and Society Project)
Isaac Tylim, Coordinator; Janice Lieberrman, Jodi Panas, Corliss Parker, David Salvage, Richard Reichbart, Florence Williams, Randi Wirth

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SEPTEMBER 9 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

The 2nd Annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour (HOAST) is scheduled for September 9th & 10th, 2006. The 1st Annual HOAST was a huge success. Over the two-day event, close to 2000 people attended. Ninety-seven ethnically and artistically diverse artists participated in 40 venues. The event brought the public into visual artists' studios in Harlem. Fifty seven percent of attendees were non-residents, visiting Harlem from as far away as Germany , Sweden and Italy.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

Christopher Rodrigues presents a slide show depicting a story of creation. A series of images have been chosen to represent a two years program of work, observing how nature and technology relate. The video begins as a series of flowers and creatures that become composed into gardens and floating islands. The islands become compressed together and flooded to become a small, walkable planet. The images then move through a planet phase, making a break from the previous images. The final two images move from a sun to a star and then whites out. The Vault (below Element) 225 E Houston on the corner of Houston and Essex

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AUGUST 19, 2006

1513 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY
C Train to Kingston btw Albany & Kingston

AUGUST 4, 2006

Presenting work by:Chris Andrews, Charnier Corey, Nate Quinn, Christopher Rodrigues, Natalie Osbourne, Paul Gillis, Crystol Cotton. White Rabbit: 145 Houston Street (between Forsyth & Eldridge) New York.

Annual Spring Gala, Benefit Art Exhibit & Sale.
CUE Art Foundation 511 West 25th Street
At the gala NURTUREart will be proud to present the annual Benefit Exhibit & Sale, an exciting array of small works from emerging artists in the NURTUREart Registry. These artworks will all be priced at $150, make your own collecting selections—be the first to pick the tags from the wall of the works of your choice. Also on view, Showcase Exhibits organized by NURTUREart Gallery's Emerging Curators and student projects from the NURTUREart Education Outreach program at the Juan Morel Campos Secondary School. Drinks and hors d'heurves will be served, gala tickets are $75, all proceeds benefit NURTUREart programming.
Honorary Chairs
Phong Bui, Publisher of the Brooklyn Rail, Joseph R. Lentol, State Assemblyman, Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President, Joshua Marston, Filmmaker (Director of the Oscar Nominated Maria Full of Grace), Lilly Wei, Critic and Independent Curator
Benefit Committee Chair:
Cheryl McGinnis, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
Benefit Committee
Joe Amrhein, Pierogi, Daniel Aycock, Front Room, Brook Bartlett, Outrageous Look, Sherry Bittle, Tastes Like Chicken, Don Burmeister, Safe-T Gallery, Ariadna Capasso, NURTUREart, Don Carroll, Jack the Pelican Presents, Mariestella Colon- Astacio, GalleryArtist.com, Robert Curcio, Curcio Projects, Heather Darcy, Mixed Greens, David Gibson, Article Projects, Nicole Goldberg, The Museum of Modern Art, Susan Hamburger, NURTUREart, Randall Harris, Figureworks, Carlos Hauser, United Knitwear, Louky Keijers, LMAK Projects, Eliot Lable, NURTUREart, Scott Langenour, Gallery Boreas, Karen Marston, NURTUREart, Veronica Mijelshon, NURTUREart, Kristen Podgurski, NURTUREart, Maggie Preston, NURTUREart, Ellen E. Rand, Art 101, Lea Rekow, Gigantic Art Space, Sara Jo Romero & Lisa Schroeder, Schroeder Romero, Todd Rosenbaum, Hogar Collection, Carol Salmanson. NURTUREart, Heather Stephens, 31Grand,
Sue Stoffel, Leah Stuhltrager, Dam Stuhltrager, Phil Swan, NURTUREart, Renée N. Vara, Vara Global Fine Arts LLC, Yona Verwer, NURTUREart, Alun Williams, Parker’s Box, Ed Winkleman, Plus Ultra
NURTUREart wishes to thank event sponsors and friends:
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, Cowgirl, CUE Foundation, GalleryArtist.com, Kader Lithographers, Volvox Motion, Inc., Artists & Craftsman Supply, Crest Hardware, Ellen E. Rand, Hope & Union, Love Shines & The Lucky Cat.

26 + Helen Mills Theater 137-139 West 26 Street
Honorary Chair
Louise Bourgeois
Drawing the Line Chair
Mary Ekmalian
Citigroup
Benefit Committee
Kóan-Jeff Baysa, Eminence Grise, Kathleen Bitetti, Artists Foundation, Stacey Boge , Vanessa Buia, Buia Gallery, Ellen Chesler, Orly Cogan, Ethan Cohen, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, Kathleen Cullen, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, Robert Curcio, Curcio Projects, Anders A. de Jounge, Jamie de Roy, Cristina Delgado, Mary Dinaburg, Dinaburg Fine Arts, Liz Ann Doherty, Max and Marina Elliott, Tenthio Designs, LLC. Steve Ernst, Merrill Lynch, Richard L. Farren, Esq.,Edward, Jay Goldberg, Macy's East, Victoria Haas, Tom Healy, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Tamar Hirschl, Peter Hirshberg, Technorati, David Hochberg, Peter and Jamie Hort, Alexis Hubshman, Judith Kahan, Center Against Domestic Violence, Lisa Mamounas, Robert Mann, Robert Mann Gallery, Philippe Manteau, Kelly Marek, Mary Mattingly, Barbara Meyer, Patrice Morse, Shoba Pala-Krishnan, Lee and Joan Pollak, Charles Radcliffe, Gail Rothman, Stephen Rycroft, Robert Michael Smith, Rona Solomon, Sanem Tatlidil, Ann Thibodeau, Daniel B. Tisdale, Renee Vara, Vara Art, Cynthia von Buhler, Liv Watson, Edgar-Online
Contributing Artists
Kristin Anderson, Lee Apt, Elena Bajo, Balchar, Jimi Billingsley, Kathleen Bitetti, Stacy Boge, Norma-Jean Bothmer, Matthew Bourbon, Louise Bourgeois, Marcy Brafman, Bozida Brazda, Kadar Brock, Derek Buckner, Timothy B. Buckwalter, Leroy Campbell, Chloe Cerwinka, Christopher Chambers, Sydney Chasten Chapin, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Stephanie S Chubbuck, Mona Diane Conner, Orly Cogan, Jay Davis, Mark Davies, Marguerite Day, Stephanie Dedes, Edward Del Rosario, Rodney Dickson, Brian Dulaney, Max Elliot, Michael Escoffery, Laura Fayer, Fred Fleisher, Kip Frace, Carla Gannis, Tara Giannini, Michela Griffo, Kathleen Hayek, Greg Hengesbaugh, Tamar Hirschl, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Fred Holland, Christian Holstad, Bryan Hunt, Elsie Kagan, Leonard Kahan, Sophie Kamin, Nina Katan, Mary Klie, Milosz Koziej, Katerina Lanfranco, Haejae Lee, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jeannine M.S. Leffel, Vilma Levy, Miranda Lloyd, Robert Longo, Stephen Maine, Karen Marston, Mary Mattingly, Dan McCarthy, Patrick McMullan, Stacy Mehrfar, Dana Melamed, Sam Messer, Carlyle Micklus, Danielle Mysliwiec, Toru Nakanishi, Shane Neufeld, Lindsey Nobel, Julie Oakes, Leah Oates, Michael Oatman, Agata Oleksiak, Lorenzo Pace, Donna Page, Anna Parkine, Eric Payson, Leemour Pelli, Danica Phelps, Anne Polashenski, Praxis, Andrei Protsouk, Paul Henry Ramirez, Alan Randolph Reid, Mary J. Reynolds, Reynolds, Christopher Rodrigues, Ismael Rodriguez, Jr., Michael Rodriguez, Eva Royal, Cordy Ryman, Barbara Sansone, Gae Savannah, Ludwig Schwarz, Beata Sepura, Koji Shimizu, Raphaele Shirley, Danny Simmons, Kiki Smith, Robert Michael Smith, Shinique Smith, Sofia, Yasmin Spiro, Wolfgang Stiller, Donna Summer, Mary Teichman, Jan Testori-Markman, Daniel B. Tisdale, Betty Tompkins, Balazs Turay, Penelope Umbrico, Cynthia von Buhler, Shirley Wegner, Janice Wood Wetzel, Michael Wetzel, Jeffrey Wiener, Alisha B. Wormsley

Curator: David Hunt
Artists: Fernando Mastrangelo, Tim Maxwell, Christopher Rodrigues, Nicola Verlato
Press Release (download .doc file)
New York Times review of the show (download .jpg file)
RARE Gallery is located on 521 W. 26th Street, New York  (212) 268-1520

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NYC Citywide Open Studios: Emerging Artists International new york

New York's first NYC Citywide Open Studios Tour in October. Emerging Artists International (EAI), a nonprofit organization based in New York City, will sponsor its first annual NYC Citywide Open Studios to showcase the work of emerging and established New York City artists. For the first time, artists in all five boroughs will invite the public inside their studios. This event is free to the public and visitors can preview artists' work on the website at http://www.nycopenstudios.org - DOWNLOAD & PRINT PDF MAPS, and create their own self-guided tours. Printed tour maps will be available in a special 16 page full color section of the September 28-October 11 issue of The L Magazine; they can also be picked up at any Urban Outfitters or Equinox Fitness Club location in Manhattan starting September 28th. Each Saturday and Sunday in October , the artists' studios will be open from 11:00am - 6:00pm. NYC Citywide Open Studios Tour will begin with: Manhattan, October 1-2, Queens, October 8-9, The Bronx, October 15-16, Brooklyn, October 22-23, and Staten Island, October 29-30

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Exhibiting mounted Flower_01, digital Cibachrome print at OM Yoga Studios. 826 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York

 

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NO BBQ: No BBQ new york

Jesse Walker, Christopher Rodrigues, Christopher O'Neal, Paul Gillis, Charadin Frank, Xiomara Cotton, Charnier Corey. Between Albany & Kingston. C Train to Kingston. 1513 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY    (247) 489-9289

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HAPPY ENDING BAR & LOUNGE: Shuffle new york

Excerpt from collection of paintings dealing with IMMIGRATION & ALIENATION. The faculty presents SHUFFLE    upstairs/ Troupe, Reckej: Drum & Bass, Dub, Down Tempo    downstairs/ Pukka:everything House. 302 Broome Street, New York, NY    (212) 334-9676.

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JUNE 8-25, 2005

Excerpt from collection of paintings dealing with IMMIGRATION & ALIENATION.

Gallery 402 located at 19 Hudson Street, #402, New York.

HAPPY ENDING BAR & LOUNGE: Shuffle new york

Excerpt from collection of paintings dealing with IMMIGRATION & ALIENATION. The faculty presents SHUFFLE    upstairs/ Troupe, Reckej: Drum & Bass, Dub, Down Tempo    downstairs/ Pukka:everything House. 302 Broome Street, New York, NY    (212) 334-9676.

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Excerpt from collection of paintings dealing with IMMIGRATION & ALIENATION.

Gallery 402 located at 19 Hudson Street, #402, New York.

C. EULE DANCE BENEFIT: new york

Donated 11" 14" c-print FLOWER_01 limited edition of 4 for private auction. Sold for $175.

 

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ANTIQUE CAFE: new york

Excerpt from collection of paintings dealing with IMMIGRATION & ALIENATION. OPENING: SAT FEB 5th, 6:oopm btw 7th & 8th Ave.CLOSED: FEB 3, 2005 due to complaints from customers.

BIRD: Stolen by FEDEX over the atlantic ocean

It seems that there still exists a form of highway robbery.
I painted this piece in 1997. I found it to successfully morph from a dove to a parrot, a porpoise to a whale and then back again. It was painted upside down as a vortex or black hole sucking in light. Once this painting was completed I turned it upside down to reveal this bird like image.
I last saw this painting on the night of May 5th 2004. The next morning I took the painting, packed in a black tube with dented silver caps and used Fed Ex to mail it to London England.
The shipping process would take 3-5 business days. I enthusiastically followed it's journey across the Atlantic, with the use of my tracking number. After a failed first attempt, no further efforts were taken to deliver my work. After two weeks I contacted the recipient to see if she could get the painting moving again on her end. The tracking number is 844554190304.
I called the Fed Ex office and the agent told me the package arrived in England opened with the painting removed. Their tracing process provided no leads to the thief. If they find the painting they will contact me.
If anyone has any information about the location of this painting please contact me. I would love to know where it has ended up. I wrote this website URL on the back of the painting so there is a great chance that the thief is watching me.
1997    Acrylic on Canvas    5' X 3'

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Jay Batlle, Ben Beaudoin, Jesse Bercowetz & Matt Bua, Ben Blatt, Suntek Chung, Gina Dawson, Adam Helms, Haavard Homstvedt, Elizabeth Huey, Matthew Day Jackson, Christopher Rodrigues

"MOMENT OF CLARITY", 2004, DVD SERIES OF 5 + 2AP, $500.ooUSD

Dance: Ayelen Liberona
Cello: Rubin Koeheli
Perform: Fishing for Jade Blue Embers

   These two powerful artists set up a camera on a rock in Upper New York State and filmed themselves performing. There is a feeling of cermony as the piece builds. This is one of their first of many performance collaborations.
   Christopher digitally super-imposed an image of a hand-laser playing with feedback from a TV screen looped with a camera filming itself. He used many layers of varying transparency, approaching video like he painted in glazes. This digital video led his artistic practice towards the long-term exploration of how technology and nature relate. Developing new, creative ways to use simple, existing, technology. This video contrasts the mechanical image he created, with the video of a natural, artistic human ritual.
Press Release (download .pdf file)
New York Time review of the show (download .pdf file)
Feigen Contemporary was located at 535 W 20th Street, New York

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Now the gallery is named KINZ + TILLOU FINE ART, located at 529 West 20th Street, 11th Floor, New York
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