Sergio Rodriguez Jarro went back to his lifelong artistic interests in 2000, while serving at the University of Miami as Vice President for Real Estate and Facilities. This followed a very rewarding professional life that included in the last few years serving the City of Miami Beach as City Manager, and the City of Miami as Assistant City Manager and Director of the Departments of Planning, Building and Zoning, and Public Works, as well as the citywide Homeless Program, and more than 10 years in city planning in Maryland.
The timing for his pursuit of artistic expression, more specifically, through painting, silkscreening and other visual media, coincided with the maturity that usually goes hand-in-hand with the freedom offered by years of personal and professional fulfillment. Hopefully, this newly found freedom will continue to challenge him in pursuing always-changing pictorial explorations.
As an artist, his newest work, under the guidance of internationally known artists at the University of Miami, follows the training he started at the universities of Florida and North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Maryland, and under other different artistic influences mostly from Puerto Rico and Cuba.
His artistic interest expresses mostly his spiritual beliefs and family values, his Cuban origin and the many years in Florida and other parts of the United States - his new-old country.
This site only shows non-objective artwork. How an artist expresses feelings...? how he represents: the impact that light and music have on his senses..?...the emotions of a particular day when he feels exuberant, or sad? ...the silent and slow movement of the growth of living things? ...the simplicity/complexity of a child’s perception? ...the anger of people when they are in a group...or the fear when they are alone facing an attack...or facing solitude? how can an artist portray changes in the world ...and the reality of his beliefs to non-believers? how can he pass on his personal experience to others when the language of expression is limited by a canvas and some paint? how can he explain the urge prompted by his brush to go to a particular color and apply a mark on the canvas ...and feel that this is good?
The representations in this website are not, of course, based on reality...but on his “take” on reality, or his reaction to the moment, and on his limitations in expressing them to others, as well as, how this resonate with them. This, of course, is not a challenge faced only by this artist in approaching non-objective art; but, his artwork, is affected by his uniqueness and experiences as an individual and how well he can portray and transmit these emotions, experiences, beliefs...how open he is to his internal commands to put specific marks so that they are received as intended by others.
His artwork is not only about the final result but, equally important, is very much about process. He is always changing, trying to discover a new way to express himself.
More than 90 of his works are in museums, universities, corporate and private collections.
He has exhibited in several national and international, group and individual shows. In several of the most recent ones some of his entries shown on this site received special recognition, among them:
· "The 13th Painting, Drawing, Print & Photography Juried International Art Exhibition” at www.UpstreamPeopleGallery.com, Two of his entries from the Spiritual Series shown on this site, received special recognition.
"The 2014 Final Biennial Latin Network for the Visual Arts International Exhibition" in the Alexey von Schilippe Gallery of Art, where one of his accepted entries was included in the announcement, and "The 2012 6th Biennal Latin Network for the Visual Arts” in Connecticut at www.LNVA.us. Please see children work series for actual artwork descriptions.
The timing for his pursuit of artistic expression, more specifically, through painting, silkscreening and other visual media, coincided with the maturity that usually goes hand-in-hand with the freedom offered by years of personal and professional fulfillment. Hopefully, this newly found freedom will continue to challenge him in pursuing always-changing pictorial explorations.
As an artist, his newest work, under the guidance of internationally known artists at the University of Miami, follows the training he started at the universities of Florida and North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in Maryland, and under other different artistic influences mostly from Puerto Rico and Cuba.
His artistic interest expresses mostly his spiritual beliefs and family values, his Cuban origin and the many years in Florida and other parts of the United States - his new-old country.
This site only shows non-objective artwork. How an artist expresses feelings...? how he represents: the impact that light and music have on his senses..?...the emotions of a particular day when he feels exuberant, or sad? ...the silent and slow movement of the growth of living things? ...the simplicity/complexity of a child’s perception? ...the anger of people when they are in a group...or the fear when they are alone facing an attack...or facing solitude? how can an artist portray changes in the world ...and the reality of his beliefs to non-believers? how can he pass on his personal experience to others when the language of expression is limited by a canvas and some paint? how can he explain the urge prompted by his brush to go to a particular color and apply a mark on the canvas ...and feel that this is good?
The representations in this website are not, of course, based on reality...but on his “take” on reality, or his reaction to the moment, and on his limitations in expressing them to others, as well as, how this resonate with them. This, of course, is not a challenge faced only by this artist in approaching non-objective art; but, his artwork, is affected by his uniqueness and experiences as an individual and how well he can portray and transmit these emotions, experiences, beliefs...how open he is to his internal commands to put specific marks so that they are received as intended by others.
His artwork is not only about the final result but, equally important, is very much about process. He is always changing, trying to discover a new way to express himself.
More than 90 of his works are in museums, universities, corporate and private collections.
He has exhibited in several national and international, group and individual shows. In several of the most recent ones some of his entries shown on this site received special recognition, among them:
· "The 13th Painting, Drawing, Print & Photography Juried International Art Exhibition” at www.UpstreamPeopleGallery.com, Two of his entries from the Spiritual Series shown on this site, received special recognition.
"The 2014 Final Biennial Latin Network for the Visual Arts International Exhibition" in the Alexey von Schilippe Gallery of Art, where one of his accepted entries was included in the announcement, and "The 2012 6th Biennal Latin Network for the Visual Arts” in Connecticut at www.LNVA.us. Please see children work series for actual artwork descriptions.
"The 2012 Masur Museum of Art 49th Annual Juried Exhibition” at www.masurmuseum.org
Please see also his objective/representative work at his other website: www.sergiorodriguez-jarro.com
Please see also his objective/representative work at his other website: www.sergiorodriguez-jarro.com