ABOUT

Kay Rodriques is a multi-disciplinary artist working in oil painting, drawing, printmaking, creative nonfiction, and artist’s books. A figurative realist artist, she captures the emotional and psychological dimensions of the human experience through solitary figures, expressive color, and sometimes, semi-abstract compositions. The mark-making and atmospheric effect of her viscosity monotypes are often present in her paintings. There they are transformed through gesture and color as well as through the relationship between figure and landscape. Drawing on the histories of, and her lived experiences in Northern California, Northern Ireland, and Jamaica, her work explores memory, migration, displacement, and belonging. Irony threads through these explorations, revealing contradictions between what we believe, what we inherit, and how we live.

Her latest publication, Forty Goodbyes, appears in Inlandia Journal. Archives of her ongoing project, Magnitude, which weaves together remembrance, social history, landscape, loss, and personal reflection, are housed on this site.