María De Los Àngeles Rodríguez Jiménez's practice currently focuses on a series of paintings and sculptures circulating around materiality, form, and spirituality. They refer to bodies through their object nature, significance, and the manipulation of every material used. The painted objects can resemble the construction of the human body, the human skin, and in certain cases, parts of the human figure. The symbolism of the color is dependent on Maria's relationship with Afro-Cuban Lukumi traditions, spiritual animism, and on the inherent color of the materials she gathers. For example, yellow alludes to Ochún, to femininity, and green or the natural color of metal alludes to Ogún. The emotion of the work emerges through the process of making. A handwritten phrase on the wall or a name that sometimes accompanies the work, reveals this intimacy. The work attempts to bring into focus the architecture of the room, the inhabited space that responds to how bodies navigate and create their mark in the spaces they occupy. Allowing for the performative nature of the work to become heightened. Her hope is that as the paintings and sculptures activate and become activated by the space, they create a space for the body that is beyond its immediate condition.

Maria was born in 1992 in Holguín, Cuba. She then immigrated to New Orleans, Louisiana in 2004. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2015. Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez Jimenez is currently a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) candidate at Yale University.

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