Lordy rodriguez biography of donald

For more than a quarter of a century, Lordy Rodriguez has utilized an ever-developing visual language inspired by map-making to generate drawings that direct our attention to complex social and cultural issues.

From code-switching, to the disenfranchisement inherent in gerrymandered congressional districts, to tracing the history of political protests, Rodriguez reframes data — with his party-colored, pictorial renderings — to reveal inequity.

In his seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Rodriguez presents two new bodies of work.

In the first set of drawings, he foregrounds water. Investigating lakes Texcoco, Tulare and Karachay, the Ogallala Aquifer, the Citarum Watershed in Indonesia, and the city of Venice, he looks at the ways humans have shaped — sometimes purposefully, but more often not — the resource we so desperately depend upon.

In his Pangea series, Rodriguez imagines new continents formed not by plate tectonics, but based on demo