Daniel Rios Rodriguez: Open This Wall at Ruby City, San Antonio, 25 October 2025 - 4 October, 2026.

Open This Wall presents a major solo exhibition of painting, curated by Elyse Gonzales, Director, Ruby City. The exhibition explores Daniel Rios Rodriguez’s signature blend of abstraction, symbolism, and richly tactile surfaces. Working in relief with found materials—rope, nails, stones—on hand‑carved wooden panels, he weaves together motifs of fire, memory, ancestral ritual, and identity rooted in the Mexican‑American experience. The exhibition is poised to be both intimate and expansive, an opportunity to experience his evolving visual language in dialogue with place, belonging, and transformation.

Guided by meditations on dreams, Daniel Rios Rodriguez’s exuberant semi-figurative paintings combine images of nature with fantastical visions that reflect upon the artist’s identity and personal experience. His coarse layers of impasto paint embellish wood panels in offbeat shapes – tilting rectangles, or solar, starburst forms with jagged edges. His paintings present an unconventional treatment of time-honoured subjects, created with a fascinating array of non-traditional materials that speak to the particular locality of his Texan environment and yet resonate far and wide.

Daniel Rios Rodriguez lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
 

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