BIOGRAPHY
Patricia Rodríguez was born in Marfa Texas, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and MA from Sacramento State University. Rodriguez is the co-founder of the “Mujeres Muralistas." She has taught printmaking and mural painting in colleges around the Bay Area, including San Francisco State University, Laney College, San Mateo Community College and Contra Costa Community College. She was one of the first Chicana artists to create a course on Chicano Art History and a textbook for a Chicano Art History course at UC Berkeley in 1977. Between 1990 and 1996 Rodriguez taught at The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Espanola Community College in Espanola, New Mexico, and at Los Alamos Community College in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
From 2001 through 2009 Rodriguez was the gallery curator for Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. She is currently a teacher for the Art in the Community program at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California .
Ms. Rodriguez' monotype prints and box constructions have been exhibited nationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago, IL, the White Gallery, UCLA, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Triton Museum, Santa Clara.
Read more about Patricia Rodriguez on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Rodriguez_(artist)
From 2001 through 2009 Rodriguez was the gallery curator for Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. She is currently a teacher for the Art in the Community program at the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California .
Ms. Rodriguez' monotype prints and box constructions have been exhibited nationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, Mexican Fine Arts Museum in Chicago, IL, the White Gallery, UCLA, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Triton Museum, Santa Clara.
Read more about Patricia Rodriguez on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Rodriguez_(artist)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Essays and Publications by Patricia Rodriguez
“Ten Years that Shook the City, San Francisco 1968-1978,” Mujeres Muralistas chapter, A Reclaiming San Francisco Book, Edited by Chris Carlsson, with Lisa Ruth Elliott,Publisher, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. 2010
"Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism”, Pioneer Chicana/Latina Artists: Creating Institutional Inclusion chapter, Edited by Frostig, Karen and Halamka Kathy A, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2007
"Selected Readings in Chicano Art," Berkeley: Chicano Studies Program, University of California, 1977. (The First Anthology of Chicano Art/ Poetry class reader for the Chicano Art History Class.
Publications about Patricia Rodriguez
Patricia Rodriguez as curator, for the 17th annual Dia de Los Muertos exhibition, article by Jason Lew, Oakland Museum of California, Inside Out Magazine, Summer/Fall 2011
Jacoby, Annice, “Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo” by Precita Eyes Murals and Visitors Center, San Francisco, CA. 94110
Martinez, Elizabeth “Betita”, 500 Years of Chicana Women’s History,Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, 2008
Pérez, Laura E., Chicana Art, The politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities,Duke University Press, 2007
Selz, Peter. Art Of Engagement, Visual Politics in California and Beyond, University of California Press, San Jose Museum of Modern Art, 2006
Ochoa, Maria. Creative Collectives: Chicano Painters Working in Community. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003, pgs. 27, 33-36, 38-39, 41-42, 46-47, 54-55, 91. 95, 96.
Mark Johnson. At Work: The Art of California Labor. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003, (Forward by Gary Brechin, Afterword by Tillie Olsen), pg. 96.
Moréchand, Laurence. "Indeigéniste de Toute Beauté." Paris, France: Femmes Artistes International No 44. (Oct.-Dec. 2002), pgs. 27-29.
Noriega, Chon A., ed. Just Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California. Santa Barbara, CA: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001, pg. 128.
Henkes, Robert. Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1999, pgs. 175-183.
Cockroft, Eva, John Pittman Weber, and James Cockcroft, eds. Towards a Peoples Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement. 2d ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pgs. 36, 70, 107, 256. Pl 6 and 17.
Gaspar De Alba, Alicia, Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Masters House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pgs. 120-123, 214.
Fuller, Diana Burgess and Daniela Salvioni. Art/Women/California 1950-2000, Parallels and Intersections, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998, pgs. 130, 177-184, 190.
Ochoa, Maria. Cooperative Re/Weavings. Mexican American Studies Center, University of Arizona: Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 5 (1995).
Goldman, Shifra M. Dimensions of The Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States, Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pgs. 209-210, 212-213.
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard, eds. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970’s, History and Impact. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1994, pgs. 240-242.
Drescher, Timothy W. San Francisco, Mural: Community Creates Its Muse. 2d ed. St. Paul, MN.: Pogo Press, 1994. Pgs.109, 272, 306, 309, 316, 324, 363, 391-193, 400, 402, 403, 420, 403, 420, 447, EB80, EB85.
Cockcroft, Eva Sperling and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, eds. Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. pgs. 68-83.
Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meanings. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Museum, 1993. Pgs. 82-84 and 104.
Mission Mural Walk Map. San Francisco : Precita Eyes Mural Art Center, 1993.
LaDuke, Betty. Women Artists: Multi-Cultural Visions. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992. Pgs. 93-102.
The Chicano Codices: Encountering the Art of the Americas. San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1992.Pgs. 8.
"CARA: Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation," Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California, 1991, pgs. 45, 296, 355-356.
Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás. "Recuerdo, Descbrimiento, Voluntad: Mexican/Chicano Customs for the Day of the Dead," In Dia de los Muertos. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Museum, 1991.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society (World of Art). London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, pgs. 224, 228.
Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990, pg. 54.
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1989, pgs. 430-432.
Roth, Moir, ed. Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists. Mills College: Eucalyptus Press, 1988, pgs. 232-236.
“Inaguraran una Muesta Pictorica de Valores Mexicanos con Aire Chicano.” El Sol de Mexico, news paper Sept. 8, 1987. Pg.
Lo del Corazón: Heartbeat of a Culture. San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1986.
Goldman, Shifra M., and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto. Arte Chicano: A Comprehensive Biography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981. Berkeley: Chicago Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, 1985. Pg. 97, 94, 126, 147, 166, 216, 241, 269, 379, 657, 737.
Barnett, Alan W. Community Murals: The Peoples Art. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1984. Pgs. 133, 134, 136, 137F, 139, 155, 268.
Brown, Betty Ann. “Chicanas Speak Out,” Community Murals Magazine (Spring 1984).Pg. 20
Goldman, Shifra M. “Chicano Art: Looking Backward,” Artweek (June 20, 1981).
Venegas, Sybil. “The Artists and Their Work: The Social Role of the Chicana Artist.” ChisméArte 1, no. 4 (1977).
Cockcroft, Eva. “Women in the Community Mural Movement,” Heresies. Vol. 2, no. 4, Issue 8. New York, N.Y. 1974, pgs. 36, 70, 107, 256 and PL. 6 and 7.
Garcia, Rupert. “An Historical Look at La Raza Murals and Muralists,” El Tecolote 2, no. 14 (July 1972)
.Tibol, Raquel, Jesus Rodriguez y Rodriguez, “Artistas Mexico Americanos de San Francisco, California.” Loteria Nacional, Mexico city Mexico Pg 83.
“Ten Years that Shook the City, San Francisco 1968-1978,” Mujeres Muralistas chapter, A Reclaiming San Francisco Book, Edited by Chris Carlsson, with Lisa Ruth Elliott,Publisher, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. 2010
"Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism”, Pioneer Chicana/Latina Artists: Creating Institutional Inclusion chapter, Edited by Frostig, Karen and Halamka Kathy A, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2007
"Selected Readings in Chicano Art," Berkeley: Chicano Studies Program, University of California, 1977. (The First Anthology of Chicano Art/ Poetry class reader for the Chicano Art History Class.
Publications about Patricia Rodriguez
Patricia Rodriguez as curator, for the 17th annual Dia de Los Muertos exhibition, article by Jason Lew, Oakland Museum of California, Inside Out Magazine, Summer/Fall 2011
Jacoby, Annice, “Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo” by Precita Eyes Murals and Visitors Center, San Francisco, CA. 94110
Martinez, Elizabeth “Betita”, 500 Years of Chicana Women’s History,Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, 2008
Pérez, Laura E., Chicana Art, The politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities,Duke University Press, 2007
Selz, Peter. Art Of Engagement, Visual Politics in California and Beyond, University of California Press, San Jose Museum of Modern Art, 2006
Ochoa, Maria. Creative Collectives: Chicano Painters Working in Community. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003, pgs. 27, 33-36, 38-39, 41-42, 46-47, 54-55, 91. 95, 96.
Mark Johnson. At Work: The Art of California Labor. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003, (Forward by Gary Brechin, Afterword by Tillie Olsen), pg. 96.
Moréchand, Laurence. "Indeigéniste de Toute Beauté." Paris, France: Femmes Artistes International No 44. (Oct.-Dec. 2002), pgs. 27-29.
Noriega, Chon A., ed. Just Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California. Santa Barbara, CA: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001, pg. 128.
Henkes, Robert. Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1999, pgs. 175-183.
Cockroft, Eva, John Pittman Weber, and James Cockcroft, eds. Towards a Peoples Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement. 2d ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. Pgs. 36, 70, 107, 256. Pl 6 and 17.
Gaspar De Alba, Alicia, Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Masters House: Cultural Politics and the CARA Exhibition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998, pgs. 120-123, 214.
Fuller, Diana Burgess and Daniela Salvioni. Art/Women/California 1950-2000, Parallels and Intersections, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998, pgs. 130, 177-184, 190.
Ochoa, Maria. Cooperative Re/Weavings. Mexican American Studies Center, University of Arizona: Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 5 (1995).
Goldman, Shifra M. Dimensions of The Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States, Chicago, Il: University of Chicago Press, 1994, pgs. 209-210, 212-213.
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard, eds. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970’s, History and Impact. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1994, pgs. 240-242.
Drescher, Timothy W. San Francisco, Mural: Community Creates Its Muse. 2d ed. St. Paul, MN.: Pogo Press, 1994. Pgs.109, 272, 306, 309, 316, 324, 363, 391-193, 400, 402, 403, 420, 403, 420, 447, EB80, EB85.
Cockcroft, Eva Sperling and Holly Barnet-Sanchez, eds. Signs from the Heart: California Chicano Murals. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993. pgs. 68-83.
Art of the Other Mexico: Sources and Meanings. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Museum, 1993. Pgs. 82-84 and 104.
Mission Mural Walk Map. San Francisco : Precita Eyes Mural Art Center, 1993.
LaDuke, Betty. Women Artists: Multi-Cultural Visions. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992. Pgs. 93-102.
The Chicano Codices: Encountering the Art of the Americas. San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1992.Pgs. 8.
"CARA: Chicano Art Resistance and Affirmation," Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California, 1991, pgs. 45, 296, 355-356.
Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás. "Recuerdo, Descbrimiento, Voluntad: Mexican/Chicano Customs for the Day of the Dead," In Dia de los Muertos. Chicago: Mexican Fine Arts Museum, 1991.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society (World of Art). London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, pgs. 224, 228.
Lippard, Lucy R. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990, pg. 54.
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1989, pgs. 430-432.
Roth, Moir, ed. Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists. Mills College: Eucalyptus Press, 1988, pgs. 232-236.
“Inaguraran una Muesta Pictorica de Valores Mexicanos con Aire Chicano.” El Sol de Mexico, news paper Sept. 8, 1987. Pg.
Lo del Corazón: Heartbeat of a Culture. San Francisco: The Mexican Museum, 1986.
Goldman, Shifra M., and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto. Arte Chicano: A Comprehensive Biography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981. Berkeley: Chicago Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, 1985. Pg. 97, 94, 126, 147, 166, 216, 241, 269, 379, 657, 737.
Barnett, Alan W. Community Murals: The Peoples Art. Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1984. Pgs. 133, 134, 136, 137F, 139, 155, 268.
Brown, Betty Ann. “Chicanas Speak Out,” Community Murals Magazine (Spring 1984).Pg. 20
Goldman, Shifra M. “Chicano Art: Looking Backward,” Artweek (June 20, 1981).
Venegas, Sybil. “The Artists and Their Work: The Social Role of the Chicana Artist.” ChisméArte 1, no. 4 (1977).
Cockcroft, Eva. “Women in the Community Mural Movement,” Heresies. Vol. 2, no. 4, Issue 8. New York, N.Y. 1974, pgs. 36, 70, 107, 256 and PL. 6 and 7.
Garcia, Rupert. “An Historical Look at La Raza Murals and Muralists,” El Tecolote 2, no. 14 (July 1972)
.Tibol, Raquel, Jesus Rodriguez y Rodriguez, “Artistas Mexico Americanos de San Francisco, California.” Loteria Nacional, Mexico city Mexico Pg 83.
