Today we’d like to introduce you to Rodrigo Aguilera.
Hi Rodrigo, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Rodrigo Aguilera was born in Bogota, Colombia. As a young child, he remembers replicating an image of Mickey Mouse and becoming obsessed with drawing. His passion from a young age led him to pursue his degree in painting from the Superior Academy of Arts of Bogota (ASAB) in 1984. The next year Aguilera moved to Houston, eager for the American dream and determined to expand his art career.
The local art culture inspired Rodrigo, and he soon decided to utilize his graphic design knowledge in order to help promote the arts in Houston. The experiences relating to artists, museums, and what was current and trending, helped develop his own creative process. “The birth of Art Gallery Magazine was for me like a postgraduate project, visiting the art galleries and painting all at the same time.”
From 2006 until the present he has continued to pursue his career as an artist painter and has participated with the prestigious Hunting Art Prize of Texas 2007 and 2009. He has also appeared in the 2007 Gala Night at the Museum of Latin American Artists (MOLAA) in the Lawndale Art Center. In 2012, he had a solo show with D.M. Allison at Gallery-Houston’s Gallery Row on Colquitt St. Most recently, he participated with “Latino Art Now 2019” with CAM Fort Bend Museum.
He is been active artist in Silver street Studios since 2020 and helping the community with his publication “Aplauso”
Aguilera has had a vast career and an ever-evolving process as an artist. He has mastered works ranging from realism to abstract, both in portraits and scenery. Currently, he has fused the two into what he calls “abstraelism.” A constant is his expertise in color, which he emphasizes in all of his works. He identifies himself most currently with this quote by Wassily Kandinsky:
“If you let your eyes stray over a palette of colors, you experience two things. In the first place, you receive a purely physical effect, namely, the eye itself is enchanted by the beauty and other qualities of color. You experience satisfaction and delight, like a gourmet savoring a delicacy….And so we come to the second result of looking at color: their psychological effect. They produce a correspondent spiritual vibration…Generally speaking, color directly influences the Soul.”
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Not at all
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a master painter with a full dominion in realism and abstract that is why my fusion is called Abstrealism,
Can you talk to us about how you think about risk?
Because I am a talent artist risk is not on my path.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: Rodrigo Aguilera art
- Facebook: Rodrigo Aguilera
