Portrait 16: Closing Reception at the Bellslip Tomorrow ✨

In the same context, we'll do an exhibition walkthrough, artist talk, and book signing of Lucía Rodríguez Pérez's Perago. We hope to see you there!

Artist Talk & Celebration Tomorrow

Lucía Rodríguez Pérez: Homecoming

Friday, May 26 | Starting at 6 pm

1 Bell Slip Brooklyn, NY 11222

The event is free, and RSVP encouraged.

Lucía Rodríguez Pérez: Homecoming on view through May 31 at the Bellslip. Photo by Erica Young.

Join us for an artist talk titled 'Color as a Question' and the closing reception of Lucía Rodríguez Pérez: Homecoming, the inaugural exhibition at the Bellslip. Artist Lucía Rodríguez Pérez will be in conversation with curator Romina Aurora.

Curator Romina Aurora and artist Lucía Rodríguez Pérez. Photo by Anita Ng.

Surveying five years of Lucía Rodríguez Pérez’s work, this exhibition presents an expansive body of work that reflects the artists earliest to recent explorations of the interplay between abstraction and representation, with color leading her investigation.

This event is titled “Color as a Question” because color is the starting point of Rodríguez Pérez’s art practice and research. This exhibition shows her commitment to exploring the question of color and developing a visual language that reveals its possibilities and propels the question forward. The goal of this conversation to is to learn more about Lucía and her work, and to begin considering what color is actively “doing” instead of passively “being” in art and around us daily.

Installation View. Photo by Erica Young.

The wide-ranging talk will explore the works on view and attempt to explain color as a language. Rodríguez Pérez will shed light on her process, sharing inspirations derived from medieval and late Renaissance art to reference materials she collects today, examine the various mediums used, and provide a glimpse into her overall process in the studio.

The Grid series [right] & interactive building grid. Photo by Erica Young.

There will be time for guests to ask questions and the event will be followed with a book signing of Perago, which fully illustrates the Grid series published by the artist and her brother, Alfredo Rodríguez in 2019. The book was first published in Santiago, Chile in conjunction with Anfibia Ediciones.

We hope you'll join us in celebrating two months of Rodríguez Pérez's solo exhibition, as well as the inaugural exhibition at the Bellslip!

For more information or to request a digital catalogue, please contact info@romistudio.io.

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Studio portrait by Erica Young.

Lucía Rodríguez Pérez was born and raised in Santiago, Chile. She received her B.F.A. from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 2009, and her M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art in 2016. Her work is encompassed primarily by paintings, but explores a range of media including works on paper, collage, sculpture, and videography. As described by her husband and artist collaborator, she is a “chromo-phile who prioritizes ambiguity.” Currently, her work explores the tension between abstraction and representation, and is informed by color as the first and last word. Rodríguez Pérez has shown internationally and widely in Colorado, including her debut solo exhibition in the United States at Alto Gallery in Denver (2022). Group exhibitions include Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY (2023); Sala Virtual CCU, Santiago, Chile (2022), Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2022); RedLine, Denver, CO (2019); Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis, MN (2018); Flux Factory, New York, NY (2016); among others. She is the recipient of a merit scholarship at the New York Academy of Art, and has been awarded grants and residencies from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Space 776 in New York. Her work has been featured by Project Gallery V, the Denver Art Museum, Mesa Gráfica, ArtAlLimite Newspaper, and more. In addition to Romi Studio, her work is included in New York-based gallery, Deanna Evans Projects’ Trove program. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.