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Shelleyne Rodriguez 80 Blocks From Tiffany's: The Insistence of Life on the Periphery of Empire

Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.  This collection of work depicts friends, comrades, and neighbors from the artist’s community in the places they live and hustle.

To view the artist’s descriptions of each of the works, please click here.

To view curriculum that accompanies this show, please click here.

May 17 - Aug 9, 2021
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    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Neighborhood Watch, 2020, oil on linen, 4 x 6 ft
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Uptown Vinyl Supreme, 2020, colored pencil on paper 22 x 26 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Hillary Paints a Banner, 2020, colored pencil on paper, 14 x 19 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Essential Worker Unmasked, 2020, colored pencil on paper, 15 x 22 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Mr. Softee, 2020, colored pencil on paper, 16 x 19 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Lisa Ortega Rolls the 4,5,6 (Ceelo), 2020, oil on linen, 36 x 40 in.
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, The Loitering Mule, oil on linen, 2019, 48 x 48 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Bike Boys on Pugsley, Scrapes and Cuts, 2020, colored pencil on paper, 19 x 25 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Bike Boys on Pugsley, Pink Durag, 2020, colored pencil on paper, 19 x 25 in
    • Shellyne Rodriguez, Three Card Hustle, 2021, colored pencil on paper, 19 x 25 in
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