Hand and Foot: Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez
Three-Day Exhibit / March 4-6
Opens / First Friday, March 4, 6-9 PM
Gallery Hours / Sat + Sun, 2-6 PM
Grizzly Grizzly is pleased to announce a three-day physical and virtual exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez. Hand and Foot is a multi-media installation involving video projection, performance, physical sculptures, and virtual reality experimentation with objects. Rodriguez states that he is “more interested in the joys paralleling traumas'' than showing trauma itself. Rodriguez achieves this by creating body immersive installations and paintings that harness a blissful dream-like state.
Hand and Foot is tethered to a memory of a fall from a roof deck while traveling in Greece. Rodriguez shows us his perspective of looking out into the world, experiencing the wonder of falling through the air instead of the pain of shattering his right heel bone. Through the aesthetics of contemporary abstraction and the surreal, he makes work about joy, the modern soul, mythological transformation, and how queer bodies relate to preconceived spaces.
Artist Bio:
Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Philadelphia. He uses his personal experiences to create paintings, drawings, sculptures, and large scale multi-channel video installations. He has exhibited his work at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York; Anna Zorina Gallery in New York, New York; Works on Paper Fine Arts Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and various other venues in the United States. He studied Fine Arts at Pratt Institute and garnered his MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in 2019.