George Rodez to Exhibit at the Nation's #1 Outdoor Fine Arts Festival

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 9, 2012 -- The Coconut Grove Arts Festival was voted the Nation's No. 1 outdoor arts festival. This year's festival will feature over 360 local, national and international artists. Amongst them will be George Rodez at booth 326. Although Rodez exhibits throughout the world, he states that exhibiting in his home town is what he most enjoys.

Rodez describes his work as a mixture of the old with the new, the Cuban and the American, the Caribbean and the African, all rolled up into one delicious palette of colors. Born in New York to Cuban parents, Rodez uses his Afro-Cuban/Caribbean Series to explore his culture and roots. He uses subjects and images that would normally be used in folkloric Cuban paintings and gives them a modern pop-ish twist. Rodez claims that what he accomplishes in creating this body of work is a sense of voyaging back to Cuba , transforming it, and making it fresh and new, as if never touched by its 48 years of stagnation. The works act as a defibrillator bringing back to life the Cuba , B(efore) C(astro), and foretelling of the possibilities of a new beginning for the lost island of ruins.

His paintings reflect the bold and vibrant colors of the stained glass used throughout the Caribbean, and with his signature double-blue backgrounds, his paintings appear to be three-dimensional. They have also been compared to the Panamanian "molas" because of their appearance of being embroidered. All of which are illusions that Rodez states mesmerizes and camouflages the fact that the paintings hold a certain degree of dysfunctionality not apparent to the casual viewer. They are not just beautiful paintings, they serve to tell the story of the more serious conditions in his parent's homeland.

Rodez will be exhibiting many of his original works at his festival booth while his gallery down the road on the 2nd floor of CocoWalk, 3015 Grand Ave., Suite 237, will carry other originals and limited edition prints of his most sought after pieces.

Join George Rodez this coming President's Day weekend on the streets of Coconut Grove. To schedule an interview or request images, please call George Rodez at 786-543-7237.

To view works by George Rodez, please visit http://rodezart.com/Series/Gallery_English.htm.ttp://rodezart.com/Series/Gallery_English.htm.

More information can be found online at http://rodezart.com/

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