Edel Rodriguez (1971) is a Cuban American artist. He is a Cuban born American illustrator/artist and children's book author. He uses a variety of materials, his work ranges from conceptual to portraiture and landscape. Socialist propaganda and western advertising, island culture and contemporary city life, are all aspects of his life that inform his work.
Edel Rodriguez was raised in El Gabriel, Cuba, a small farm town surrounded by fields of tobacco and sugar cane. In 1980 Rodriguez and his family boarded a boat and left for America during the Mariel boatlift. They settled in Miami where Rodriguez was introduced to and influenced by American pop culture for the first time. Socialist propaganda and western advertising, island culture and contemporary city life, are all aspects of his life that continue to inform his work.
In 1994, Rodriguez graduated with honors in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 1998, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Manhattan’s Hunter College graduate program. Throughout his career, Rodriguez has received commissions to create artwork for numerous clients, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other publications and book publishers. Rodriguez's artwork is in the collections of a variety of institutions, including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., as well as in numerous private collections.
Today he enjoys quite a bit of professional freedom. Having left Time in 2008 he has more time to spend with his wife Jennifer and his two young daughters. He's free to move between illustration and fine art, working on editorial assignments, book covers and writing and illustrating children's books on one side of the studio, concentrating on painting and sculpture on the other side. “Fine art gives me the freedom illustration doesn't. With illustration someone is giving you a deadline, a direction, the dimensions; you're satisfying them. With fine art I really have no idea where I'm going with it. It just evolves. I can work on it for one day and leave it for weeks at a time. It's finished when I say it's finished,” he says.
Living an all-American dream in a lovely 1875 Victorian home outside Parsippany, New Jersey, with its sky-lit studio, backyard gazebo, deck and in-ground pool, Rodriguez has come a very long way from the village of El Gabriel. His life is proof that anyone can do it. Talent is part of it, but the larger part is that you have to want it bad enough.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © Edel Rodriguez. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
Edel Rodriguez was raised in El Gabriel, Cuba, a small farm town surrounded by fields of tobacco and sugar cane. In 1980 Rodriguez and his family boarded a boat and left for America during the Mariel boatlift. They settled in Miami where Rodriguez was introduced to and influenced by American pop culture for the first time. Socialist propaganda and western advertising, island culture and contemporary city life, are all aspects of his life that continue to inform his work.
In 1994, Rodriguez graduated with honors in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 1998, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Manhattan’s Hunter College graduate program. Throughout his career, Rodriguez has received commissions to create artwork for numerous clients, including The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other publications and book publishers. Rodriguez's artwork is in the collections of a variety of institutions, including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., as well as in numerous private collections.
Today he enjoys quite a bit of professional freedom. Having left Time in 2008 he has more time to spend with his wife Jennifer and his two young daughters. He's free to move between illustration and fine art, working on editorial assignments, book covers and writing and illustrating children's books on one side of the studio, concentrating on painting and sculpture on the other side. “Fine art gives me the freedom illustration doesn't. With illustration someone is giving you a deadline, a direction, the dimensions; you're satisfying them. With fine art I really have no idea where I'm going with it. It just evolves. I can work on it for one day and leave it for weeks at a time. It's finished when I say it's finished,” he says.
Living an all-American dream in a lovely 1875 Victorian home outside Parsippany, New Jersey, with its sky-lit studio, backyard gazebo, deck and in-ground pool, Rodriguez has come a very long way from the village of El Gabriel. His life is proof that anyone can do it. Talent is part of it, but the larger part is that you have to want it bad enough.
© 2018. All images are copyrighted © Edel Rodriguez. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission from the artist is obtained.
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| American Illustration book |
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| At War |
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| Book cover |
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| Brand CAChé, 2006 |
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| Broadway Playbill covers |
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| Carmen opera poster |
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| Cuba |
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| Dark Sisters, Vancouver Opera |
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| Entertainment Weekly (for an article touting "Bring Up the Bodies") |
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| ESPN The Magazine |
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| Eva |
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| Freedom of speech |
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| Putin and Syria, Friday’s New York Times editorial |
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| "Gay in L.A.” Cover art for special issue of Frontiers magazine |
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| Hope for Justice |
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| Indefinite detention in Guantanamo |
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| International Declaration of Human Rights, Canadian Museum of Human Rights |
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| Marriage of Figaro |
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| MediaCat magazine, published in Turkey |
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| Newsweek |
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| Nixon in China, poster, 2009 |
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| Norma, Poster |
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| The New York Times Sunday Book Review |
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| Online abuse, Wired Magazine |
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| Political Illustration |
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| page in The New Yorker |
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| Portrait of Texas Governor Rick Perry, published in Mother Jones magazine |
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| Poster for Noah’s Flood (Opera) |
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| Privacy vs. surveillance, originally published in The New York Times |
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| Puerto Rico |
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| Samson and Delilah, opera poster |
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| School Violence |
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| Stranger to Stranger |
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| Targeted killings and the rule of law, Boston Globe |
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| Terrorist groups sprouting up in Syria after the defeat of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan the New York Times |
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| The dangers of nuclear power |
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| The Last Days of a Dictator |
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| THE LAST UTOPIA Human Rights in History |
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Religious rights vs. the law, the New York Times Sunday Review section today
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| The New York Times Sunday Review |
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| The tense situation between Russia and Ukraine, The New York Times today |
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| The death sentences handed down to 529 people by an Egyptian court, The New York Times |
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| A play by the Atlantic Theatre Company, The New Yorker magazine. |
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| Tosca, opera poster |
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| Madama Butterfly, Vancouver Opera |
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| Evita, Vancouver Opera |
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| Rigoletto, Vancouver Opera |
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| We’re Missing the Story, the media’s retreat from foreign reporting, The New York Times |
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| Why Are Rwandans Disappearing? The New York Times |
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| Why Hamas Tunnels Scare Israel So Much, Washingtom Post |
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