“East meets West” in an exchange of talent

daas Gallery Presents: “Personalities” a George Rodez solo exhibition
Friday, June 3 in Fort Myers
1542 Broadway Street
Fort Myers, FL

Saturday, June 4 in Coconut Grove
Rodez Art Gallery Presents: “What Matters Most” a David Acevedo solo exhibition
CocoWalk, 3015 Grand Ave., Suite 237
Coconut Grove, FL

daas Gallery Presents: “Personalities” a George Rodez solo exhibition
The vernissage will be held on Friday, June 3, 2011
during Art Walk in Fort Myers from 6 to 10 pm.

As an artist George Rodez feels an obligation to explore the experiences with which he is presented in life. Rodez says, “I am compelled to use my artistic creativity influenced by these experiences. To live life is to feel emotions. I live through my paintings in this very same fashion.” Rodez is a Cuban painter born in Manhattan. He is a self-taught artist who later in life dabbled in art courses to further develop his talents. He believes in growing his own process and developing his own language in the arts, and lives by that everyday he creates. “I’d like to think that I am an artist with no boundaries or limitations,” he explains. Thus, I create multiple bodies of work each vastly different from the other. My mother suffered from mental illness, including multiple personalities. I made an active decision to take the lessons learned and incorporate them into my art. Each body of work provides me with a different experience and allows for all of my Personalities to show through . . . a sort of smorgasbord.

Rodez Art Gallery Presents: “What Matters Most” a David Acevedo solo exhibition
The vernissage will be held on Saturday, June 4, 2011
during Coconut Grove Gallery Walk from 7 to 10 pm.

As an artist, David Acevedo has constantly experimented with multiple subjects and media. Just recently he has created a series of works in which he has simplified and aligned the subject matter in a very straight forward, yet honest way. Matters is a collection of paintings that explore a recent self-imposed remedy to ever-changing expressions for Acevedo. It consists in a body of work in which the relationship between color and shape are the primary subjects allowing the viewer to see what matters most, obvious at times but holding secrets yet to be discovered. The simplicity and back-to-basics nature of these works offer an appealing and rewarding experience to the artist. Acevedo states, “There are all sorts of ‘matters’ going on in my head and my heart during the creative process.” Moreover, to look into the world of David Acevedo is perhaps to mirror our own desire as individuals to return to a world of innocence, naiveté, and serenity as we all seek to find What Matters Most in our lives.