San Francisco Center for the Book is excited to have Favianna Rodriguez as one of the 2012 Roadworks Featured Artists.
Favianna Rodriguez is a celebrated East Bay printmaker and digital artist. Using high-contrast colors and vivid figures, her composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Favianna came of age in East Oakland, surrounded by Chicano political poster artists; her work seeks to “translate the messages of the front lines into works of art that can be used to educate and mobilize.”
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Image courtesy Favianna Rodriguez.
From Favianna’s artist’s statement:
“My work reflects a growing national consciousness that speaks to the contemporary urban barrios, rebelling against racism, homophobia, sexism and corporate irresponsibility.”
Keeping with this theme, Favianna co-edited a 2008 bilingual edition of activist design, Reproduce & Revolt, which not only showcases a global collection of contemporary political graphics — it also shows readers how to utilize the imagery for their own protest purposes.
Favianna’s itinerary is as full as her color scheme; she’s a prolific exhibitor, lecturer, visiting artist and even finds time to direct Visual Element, the mural program arm of the EastSide Arts Alliance.
This is Favianna’s second turn as a Roadworks Featured Artist, and the San Francisco Center for the Book is elated to have her back. Favianna was featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian segment produced by Carmel Wroth and Rhyen Coombs on the 2008 Roadworks:
And now she’s hard at work on her new piece, transforming the three-foot-square linoleum into a vibrant meditation on growth.
Image courtesy Favianna Rodriguez.
Come see Favianna’s piece (and the work of four other Roadworks artists!) get printed via steamroller live in the street on Saturday, September 22nd! For information on purchasing a print, email roadworks@sfcb.org.
Image courtesy Favianna Rodriguez.
