“Angel Rodriguez-Diaz/Carter Ernst” Angel Rodriguez-Diaz’s hyperreal, kitsch-infused paintings depict luchadores, the masked stars of Mexican wrestling. But Rodriguez-Diaz isn’t presenting his subjects in the ring. Instead, he paints intimate portraits with elaborate, lacy backgrounds. In these lushly colored paintings, Rodriguez-Diaz imparts incongruous psychological undertones to his subjects. One image, for…
Angel Rodriguez-Diaz
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