Force of Nature
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Glen Baldridge, Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Nick Farhi, John Knuth and Lukas Marxt
March 31 – May 12, 2018
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (born Los Angeles, 1990) earned a BA from Bard College (2012), an MFA from Yale University (2016) and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016). Aparicio’s work focuses on the Salvadoran diaspora, migration, and the interrelated histories of Central and North America. He uses rubber, an important natural resource from El Salvador (and Mexico), to create paintings that encapsulate natural and man-made images embedded within the surface of urban trees in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Aparicio’s works are beautiful as paintings but they also represent a complicated history that relates to the Spanish conquest as well as to the complex relationships between Central America, Mexico and the United States. His work was part of the group exhibition The Dog, the Tree and the Catfish at Steve Turner, Los Angeles.
Born 1990, Los Angeles
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2016
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
2012
BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2010
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2018
Zona Maco, Mexico City (with Steve Turner)
2016
Double Dip, Thesis Show, Yale School of Art, New Haven
2015
Second Coming, Yale School of Art, Green Gallery, New Haven
2013
Eddie Aparicio, Gilded Moon Gallery, Millerton, New York
2012
A Leap of Space, Bard College Exhibition Space, Annandale-on-Hudson
Group Exhibitions
2018
The Dog, the Tree and the Catfish, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2017
UNTITLED, Miami (with Steve Turner)
UPROOT, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn
2016
Meatballs, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, Maine
Partners, Abrons Art Center, New York
Sunrise Sunset, Infinity Room, Los Angeles
2014
Ebola Relief Auction, Yale School of Art, Green Gallery, New Haven
First Things, Yale School of Art, Green Gallery, New Haven
2010
Making+Meaning, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
Awards
2015
Schell Center for Human Rights Yearlong Fellowship
2014
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
2012
Sol LeWitt and Elizabeth Murray Studio Arts Award
2010
Full Merti Scholarship, SCI-Arc
March 31 – May 12, 2018
January 6 – February 10, 2018