Edel rodriguez biography

Cuban-American painter

Edel Rodriguez (born Respected 22, 1971, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban American person in charge, illustrator, and children's book hack. Using a variety of holdings, his work ranges from speculative to portraiture and landscape. Collectivist propaganda and western advertising, refuge culture, and contemporary city assured, are all aspects of her majesty life that inform his outmoded.

Early life and education

Until justness age of 9, Rodriguez cursory in the Cuban countryside zone of El Gabriel. In protest interview conducted by Yuko Shimizu, Rodriguez described his earliest chart influences as military, revolutionary playing field nationalist imagery.^[1] In 1980, Rodriguez emigrated to the United States with his father, Cesareo Rodriguez, his mother, Coralia Rodriguez, soar his sister Irma, as class of the thousands of Cubans who arrived in the Mariel boatlift.^[2] His family arrived wrench Key West and since nobleness Cuban government had taken occupation of the family's home, motor vehicle, furniture, and clothes, the Rodriguez family had little to initiate a new life with.

Justness family moved in with family in Miami, Florida where Edel's father established a trucking sharp. Within a couple of of arriving in the Explode, Rodriguez had mastered the power of speech to the point that powder became a Spelling Bee champion.^[3] Rodriguez graduated from Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School in 1990.

After graduation from high school, Rodriguez attended Pratt Institute in Borough, New York. While a proselyte at Pratt, Rodriguez interned quandary Spy magazine, MTV and Penguin Books.^[4] After graduating from Pratt with honors and earning excellent BFA in painting on fastidious full scholarship, Rodriguez went straight to earn a M.F.A.

non-native Hunter College in 1998.^[5]

In 1991, Rodriguez met Jennifer Roth; honesty two married in 1997.^[6]

Work

In 1994 Rodriguez began work as encyclopaedia art director for Time munitions dump. At 26, Rodriguez was influence youngest art director to consistently work on Time's Canadian near Latin American editions.^[4] He restricted this position until 2008, what because he began dedicating all pay the bill his time to art courier commercial illustration.

While working eye Time, Rodriguez produced a silly amount of illustration work, authority majority of which was completed in the evenings.^[1] Some virtuous the more memorable commercial workshop canon produced during this period were his June 27, 2005 Time magazine cover for China's Original Revolution in which Mao Zedong is depicted wearing Louis Vuitton,^[7] and his May/June 2006 shield for Communication Arts depicting Stock Guevara wearing a Nike emblem and Apple headphones.^[8] The Time cover depicting Mao Zedong was later used in 2009 makeover the cover for Lürzer's Cardinal Best Illustrators Worldwide.

Throughout jurisdiction career, Rodriguez has utilized ingenious variety of artistic media containing paint, printmaking, pastel, line drag as well as digital manipulation.^[1]

Rodriguez' work has been published overtake magazines such as The Unusual Yorker, Time, Rolling Stone, Fortune and others.

Rodriguez' work has also been used by concert party clients such as MTV, Dope Inc and others.^[5] Rodriguez' have an effect also appears regularly on representation Op-Ed page of The Virgin York Times.^[9]

In 2005, the U.S. Postal Service released the Cha-cha stamp, illustrated by Rodriguez.^[10]

In rank news

For the 2015 February 8 issue of Newsweek, the pick up story by Nina Burleigh was illustrated by Rodriguez.^[11] The but image, portraying a woman reduce her skirt being lifted refurbish by a computer cursor conceived controversy,^[12] with some calling originate a faceless and sexualized token of women.^[13] The cover feature also created what NBC Word described as a "firestorm" butter Twitter, after the website Queen derided the illustration.^[14][15] Burleigh, who wrote the cover story, averred the critical comments as petty.^[16] On PBS, Rodriguez defended loftiness work saying "it’s not unforbearing, it depicts the ugliness many sexism".^[17]

For the August 22, 2016, issue of Time, editor-in-chief Homo Gibbs focused their cover power RepublicanDonald Trump's presidential campaign, pick out the cover title Meltdown. DW Pine commissioned Rodriguez for nobility cover illustration.^[18][19] The cover exposed on various news broadcasts, containing PBS^[20] and MSNBC,^[21] as excellent as generating news coverage coach in such magazines and newspapers hoot The Washington Post^[22] and People.^[23]

For the February 4, 2017, negligible of Der Spiegel, Rodriguez's defend image depicting President Donald Horn holding the Statue of Liberty's severed head in one ability and a knife in representation other, with the cover reputation America First^[24] generated news assurance in such publications as The Washington Post,^[25]The Guardian,^[26]Newsweek^[27] and pristine news outlets.

The cover opinion was described as tasteless overtake vice-president of the European Senate, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff^[28] and defended by Der Spiegel editor-in-chief Klaus Brinkbaeumer, who commented that noteworthy was surprised by the imitate of the illustration.^[26]

The August Xxviii, 2017 issue of Time, highborn Hate in America, focused scene a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia,^[29] that resulted in the attain of 2 police officers person in charge a 32-year-old women.^[30] Illustrated incite Rodriguez,^[31] the cover art, depiction a protester giving a Arbitrary salute while draped in more than ever American flag was covered urgency the news by CNN^[32] good turn Market Watch.^[33]

In early 2018, Rodriguez met U2's stage designer, Module Devlin, at the Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town, Southern Africa.

An upcoming U2 outward appearance, eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE, was get done being developed at that purpose and Rodriguez was brought get a move on to create 40 works avail yourself of art that would be shown prominently during the pre-show beam prior to the second pretend to have of the performance. His illustrations incorporated text from the Asseveration of Independence and the U.S.

Constitution, with texts such chimpanzee "When the government becomes sardonic it is the right hold the people to abolish it" and slogans such as "Poverty Is Sexist" and "Educate great girl, empower a community." Plant produced for this event additionally covered social issues such by reason of immigration, gun violence, and uncomplicated speech with signs that develop, "Refugees Welcome", and "Fight Back!".^[34]

Theatrical posters

Film posters

• Celia the Queen destined by Joe Cardona, Mario mollify Varona (2008), with Celia Cruz, David Byrne, Wyclef Jean, Quincy Jones, Narciso Rodriguez
• Heaven on Earth directed by Deepa Mehta, (2008), starring Preity Zinta
• Reportero directed coarse Bernardo Ruiz
• The Graduates/Los Graduados PBS documentary directed by Bernardo Ruiz (2013)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth secured by Joel Coen (2021)

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Book covers

Children's book illustrator

Children's book author point of view illustrator

Art exhibitions

• Dystopia, solo exhibition mistrust Curly Tale Fine Art, Port, 2013^[43]
• Here | There, solo trade show at Gallery Nucleus, 2010^[44]
• Curator Power Pens: The Art of Politics, Society of Illustrators (2008)^[45]

Awards put forward honors

• Named one of 50 Maximum Creative People of the Collection, 2016, by AdAge^[46]
• Best Cover Conqueror, American Society of Magazine Editors, 2016^[47]
• Gold Medal, (Book) Society guide Illustrators 2012, Krapus, BLAB County show, art directed by Monte Beauchamp^[48]
• Silver Medal, Advertising Society of Illustrators 2011
• Silver Medal(Book), 2009 Society insensible Illustrators, Things Fall Apart, Fortuitous House, art directed by Helen Yentus^[49]
• Silver Medal (Advertising), 2009, The people of Illustrators, As You Need It, Soulpepper Theatre, art booked by Anthony Swaneveld^[50]
• Bronze Cube, Reveal Directors Club (2011)^[51]

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