Hello and Welcome to "the jrod element"!
Jamie Ricardo Rodriguez is an installation artist, sculptor and self-taught impressionist landscape painter.
Rodriguez specializes in the areas of insulation foam carving, plaster mold making, lost wax, wax casting, and figurative sculpture/clay. There are no found objects in his work. All objects are handmade, crafted, and hand painted. Rodriguez also has experience in wood carving, snow/ice carving/sculpture, welding and foundry.
Rodriguez’s work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Rodriguez has attended art residencies, exhibited, and lectured about his work in Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Spain, Portugal and Berlin, Germany.
Rodriguez completed his MFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York at Albany (UAlbany).