An Evening with Arturo Rodríguez

Cuban American artist Arturo Rodríguez discusses his forthcoming monograph, “Arturo Rodríguez,” in conversation with art historians Alejandro Anreus and Bruce Weber. The book is the first publication devoted exclusively to Rodríguez’s career and surveys nearly 47 years of his artistic practice.

The discussion will examine Rodríguez’s figurative paintings and the themes of memory, family, exile, identity and Miami that appear throughout his work. Rodríguez is a self-taught artist based in Miami whose work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Lowe Art Museum.

The conversation will also cover the development of the monograph and Rodríguez’s work addressing memory, exile, belonging and the Cuban American experience.

Rodríguez will be joined by Alejandro Anreus, emeritus professor at William Paterson University, and Bruce Weber, an art historian, curator and poet.