Lordy Rodriguez

Maps with a twist by Lordy Rodriguez now showing at the Hosfelt Gallery in New York.















For the past 15 years, the vocabulary of cartography has been the bedrock of Rodriguez's ink drawings. Within the hundreds of 10x14-inch drawings in this exhibition, Rodriguez lays out a visual lexicon of the map-based forms that have defined his work. Though without text, topographical notations are recognizable through familiar lines and gradations of color. Mountains, fissures, lakes, rivers, and islands are identifiable. But this is topography on acid. Colors are fluorescent or counterintuitive; shapes reminiscent of landscape morph into abstract patterns. References to microbiology, animation, Op Art, and textiles abound.