{"id":43097,"date":"2015-10-05T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43097"},"modified":"2017-05-28T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T18:07:30","slug":"how-art-can-disrupt-our-ideas-and-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43097","title":{"rendered":"How art can disrupt our ideas and identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/how-art-can-disrupt-our-ideas-and-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How art can disrupt our ideas and identities<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news@Northeastern<\/a><br \/>\nNortheastern University, Boston, Massachusetts<br \/>\n2015-09-23<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thea Singer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/favianna.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Favianna Rodriguez<\/a> makes bold, sparkling works that light up a room even as they reveal dark cul\u00adtural inequities.<\/p>\n<p>She is known for her activism and political posters addressing issues such as racism, women\u2019s rights, displacement, and climate change. Now, for the first time, her abstract prints\u2014multilayered col\u00adlages of vibrant colors and rever\u00adber\u00adating shapes\u2014are on dis\u00adplay: 27 of them line the walls in Northeastern\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/art\/category\/gallery-360\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gallery 360<\/a> in an exhibit called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/art\/the-multiverse-of-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Multiverse of Identity<\/a>\u201d as she begins her week\u00adlong stint at North\u00adeastern as artist in res\u00adi\u00addence. The exhibit opened ealier this month and runs through mid-December.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez will be talking about her vision of art as both an agent of social change and individual narrative on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 6 p.m., in Blackman Auditorium&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Her process<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez\u2019s process for making her abstract works\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intaglio_(printmaking)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intaglio printing<\/a>, using an etching plate\u2014is \u201cvery, very elaborate.\u201d Each piece takes months. To start, she applies ink to create tex\u00adture on mul\u00adtiple sheets of Japanese paper, pro\u00adducing a \u201clibrary of colors.\u201d \u201cI think of the prac\u00adtice as creating the container in which I\u2019m going to play,\u201d she says. She then cuts the paper into shapes\u2014now spikey, now undulating\u2014and arranges them in a \u201cplayful way.\u201d \u201cThe arranging\u2014repeating shapes, refining them\u2014is what gives each piece its own char\u00adacter,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The colors smack you in the face. \u201cFor me, color is about possibility,\u201d she says. It characterizes both her art and her com\u00admit\u00adment to breaking apart assumptions\u2014for herself, for all of us. \u201cI don\u2019t like when people put me in the woman box or the Latina box or the political artist box,\u201d she says. \u201cThat limits who I am as an individual. I want to instead embrace the possibility of who I can be. That\u2019s where ulti\u00admate freedom is.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/news\/2015\/09\/how-art-can-disrupt-our-ideas-and-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Favianna Rodriguez makes bold, sparkling works that light up a room even as they reveal dark cul\u00adtural inequities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[21305,21307,21303,21304],"class_list":["post-43097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-favianna-rodriguez","tag-newsnortheastern","tag-northeastern-university","tag-thea-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54018,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097\/revisions\/54018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}