Partial installation view of Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
Book 13
Book 13
Sandy Rodriguez
Sandy Rodriguez
Sandy Rodriguez’s Book 13 is an installation that draws on a range of colonial Mexican sources in dialogue with 19th-century maps and archival boundary surveys. The project brings together research on place, ecology, and regional histories to explore past and present period of resistance. At its center is a hand-gilded artist codex and a 20 x 8-foot map of the United States; the project also features new paintings and sculptures created with hand-processed watercolor on amate paper, as well as archival materials from the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. This exhibition offers a profound visual exploration of archives to understand the present and create a space for reflection. Book 13 is largely inspired by intensifying human rights abuses across the nation and at the U.S.-Mexico border
Book 13 premiered on March 22, 2026 at the Huntington Museum.
2021
Visual Arts, Painting & Printmaking, Installation
Sandy Rodriguez: Book 13
Partial installation view of Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
View of sculptures featured in Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
Partial installation view of Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
Detail view of sculptures and map featured in Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
Detail view of Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
View of map featured in Sandy Rodriguez, Book 13, The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, March 2026.
About Sandy Rodriguez
Los Angeles, CA
Sandy Rodriguez is a visual artist and researcher who grew up in San Diego and Los Angeles in California, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Her works map intersections of history, social memory, and contemporary politics. Strongly influenced by both the 16th-century colonial Florentine Codex and present-day incidents along the US-Mexico border and Western US, her series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón maps the ongoing cycles of violence on communities of color by blending historical and recent events. The maps are painted with locally sourced natural materials such as minerals, plants, and insects employed in history of image making of the Americas. The images are painted on sacred (formerly outlawed) Amate paper made from fig and mulberry tree bark.
In addition to her major solo exhibitions In Isolation (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Texas, 2021) and Sandy Rodriguez: Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón (Riverside Art Museum, California, 2018), she has also presented her work at the group exhibitions Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche (Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 2022) and Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21 (El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2021).
Sandy Rodriguez is a visual artist and researcher who grew up in San Diego and Los Angeles in California, and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Her works map intersections of history, social memory, and contemporary politics. Strongly influenced by both the 16th-century colonial Florentine Codex and present-day incidents along the US-Mexico border and Western US, her series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón maps the ongoing cycles of violence on communities of color by blending historical and recent events. The maps are painted with locally sourced natural materials such as minerals, plants, and insects employed in history of image making of the Americas. The images are painted on sacred (formerly outlawed) Amate paper made from fig and mulberry tree bark.
In addition to her major solo exhibitions In Isolation (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Texas, 2021) and Sandy Rodriguez: Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón (Riverside Art Museum, California, 2018), she has also presented her work at the group exhibitions Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche (Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 2022) and Estamos Bien: La Trienal 20/21 (El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2021).