Self Portrait
Graphite on Paper
A4
2023
Kyle and Mark
A4
2023
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The Firm
Graphite on Paper
A4
2023
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Kyle & Mark
Graphite on Paper
A4
2023
ESTONIA
Kyle Rodriguez has a connection to Estonia, through his experiences of the culture and having a deep attachment, he has visually responded through photography and illustration that are varied in the form of a visual diary.
Kyle Rodriguez has found the country to be a country of warmth, despite the cold winters. Estonia resembles something of traditional beauty which is contrasted with the shadow of the soviet union, and the culture is diverse and progressive where values and pride are at the utmost explication. The land itself is a thing of a majestic ancient mystery that echoes through the great expanses of pine forest and is met by the whisper of the baltic sea.
Kyle Rodriguez was shown and brought to visit Hiiumaa, an island which is off the mainland of Estonia. He was shown at a time when the island was preparing for the sleep and slow times of winter, however, the great island offered peace and solitude to the artist, and he was humbled to be shown the beautiful and tranquil land. These events shaped the artist and he is forever connected to Estonia through dreams and memory.
"Old Town"
Graphite on Paper
2023
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Birgit Kala
Graphite on Paper
A4
2020
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Esoteric Drinking
Oil on canvas
30"x 40"
2021
See below
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Famalia
Graphite on Paper
A4
2021
Bottom Right
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Tondi Travels
Graphite on Paper
A4
2021
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PARIS
Kyle Rodriguez has travelled to Paris several times in his lifetime. He has love and connection for the place and found it to be home for himself and bohemia and the arts, he likes many before him have adopted Paris as a home.
Kyle Rodriguez frequented tabac bars and cafe's and conversed with and indulged on the Parisian night life.
As well as having a strong love for poetry, the artist encapsulated these themes through a series of photographs and illustrations.
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Joan of Arc
Graphite on Paper
A4
2022
Pinto & Conversation II
Graphite on Paper
A4
2022
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Tabac Bar
Graphite on Paper
A4
2018
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Woman on Mirror
Graphite on Paper
A4
2021
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Woman on telephone
Oil on canvas
30"x 40"
2022
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Revolver
Graphite on Paper
A4
2021
See Bolow
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Woman Beret
Graphite on Paper
A4
2023
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It's Boredom!—eye brimming with an involuntary tear
He dreams of gallows while smoking his hookah.
You know him, reader, this delicate monster,
Hypocritical reader, my likeness, my brother!
Les Fleurs du mal
PARTISANS
With Kyle Rodriguez's strong interest in WW2, one thing that inspired him was the Partisan movement in Paris. He found the idea of people standing up to oppression to be moving. In the dark times of Nazi occupation, french citezens would risk there own lives and there loved ones to stand up to a greater evil. In response Kyle Rodriguez completed a set a of illustrations.
Les Allemands e’taient chez moi,
ils me dirent, “Signe toi,”
mais je n’ai pas peur;
j’ai repris mon arme.
J’ai change’ cent fois de nom,
j’ai perdu femme et enfants
mais j’ai tant d’amis;
j’ai la France entie`re.
Un vieil homme dans un grenier
pour la nuit nous a cache’,
les Allemands l’ont pris;
il est mort sans surprise.
CITY 17
COVID-19 effected Kyle Rodriguez as much as anyone else, the time at great distance from others had a profound effect on the artist. He was aware of the uncertain times and hardships that the pandemic caused and responded visually with a series of dystopian illustrations. The artist was teaching art and had to continue his job role whilst protecting and minimizing the risk of exposure.
Whilst this time proved useful for the artist to commit further to art, the isolation certainly was a challenge to the artist. He spent his time however with his adopted family.
This work gathered some pace however due to the nature of the works the artist completed the works in haste after producing these images.
HORROR!
Kyle Rodriguez took some time exploring and spending time around an old abandoned mental asylum whilst engrossing himself with gothic literature, as a response he developed a series of illustrations that encapsulated a dark theme of something sinister and menacing but yet was matched with some cinematic illu
He also became engrossed in psychology and read works from Carl Jung which opened himself up to transcendence and astral projection within dimensional fields which in turn transformed his art and visual narratives within his work.
METAMORPHISIS
PORTRAITS
Kyle Rodriguez has always found the portrait to be a strong vocal point within his works, his subjects change and differ as well as the outcomes of his work. He reflects of his own personal relationship with the person and delivers a haunting sensitivity that evokes and challenges the soul.
POST LONDON
From returning from London, Kyle reflected on his self as an artist and created a body of work which reflected where he felt situated. He often travelled to Brugge or France for a day to reflect on the past and plot for the future.
ZEPPELIN
Kyle Rodriguez created this drawing to exhibit in the poetry cafe in London. The theme was related to WW1 and Kyle decided to look at the skies and imagine a dark shadow, at home far from the trenches.
Residents reported hearing an eerie throbbing sound above them, followed shortly afterwards by the sound of explosions in the streets.
The full horror of aerial warfare was unleashed. When the smoke cleared, Britain's first ever air-raid causalities were revealed - 72-year-old Martha Taylor and shoemaker Samuel Smith.
Kate Argyle, from English Heritage, said: "There was no military advantage. It was all about instilling terror and really that's what these aerial bombardments did.
