Rigo 23

Criminal: Art and Criminal Justice in America
Fine Arts Gallery, Fine Arts, San Francisco State University
February 20 – March 29, 2008, Opening Reception Saturday February 16, 1 – 4 pm
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Food Not Bombs/Keith McHenry, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



500 Years of Resistance March Stops Columbus Celebrations, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



Anti War-Protesters Shut Bay Bridge Two Days in a Row, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



Judi Bari Car Bombed, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



Huey P. Newton, Black Panther Party, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



United Farm Workers Union Co-Founder Dolores Huerta, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



Vietnam Veteran for Peace Brian Wilson, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



Three AIDS Vigil Protestors, 2007
mixed media on canvas
72” x 120”



4 x 4, 2002
Push pins on wood
55” x 55”



Helicopter, 2002
Push pins on wood
45” x 45”



January 12, 2006, 2006
ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas
45” x 96”



May 11, 2006, 2006
ink and acrylic on unstretched canvas
46” x 100”



Moonlanding Park, 2005
Apollo Moon Flights Globe, Nystrom Pictorial Relief Globe, metal stand

details:




Drawing for 4 x 4, 2002
Ink and paper on paper
16” x 16” uf; 19 3/4” x 19 3/4” fr



Drawing for Helicopter, 2002
Ink and pencil on paper
11” x 17” uf; 14 3/4” x 20 3/4” fr



4% Off 96% On, 1996
Print, Edition of 90
30” x 21.5”



American War Economy, 2002
Ink on paper
18” x 24”



America Will Always Blame..., 2002
Mixed media on paper
24” x 18”



Business is Business, 2002
Ink on paper
24” x 18”



Untitled (Forward/Reward), 1995
Ink on paper
10.5” x 8”



Untitled (23.02), 2002
Ink on paper
19” x 11”



Otelo Savaira de Carvalho, 1988
Ink on paper
12” x 18”



Untitled (23.01), 2002
Xerox, white-out, masking tape
11” x 15”

RIGO 23 has exhibited his work internationally for over 20 years, placing murals, paintings, sculptures, and tile work in public situations where viewers are encouraged to examine their relationship to their community, their role as unwitting advocates of public policy or their place on a planet occupied by many other living things. RIGO’s works live both as artworks and as thoughtful public interventions.

RIGO’s graphic imagery borrows stylistically from signage, advertising, popular cartoons, and newsprint photography. To realize his images, RIGO paints on large tarps and often directly on walls. Sometimes he employs tile work, a craft popular in his native Portugal.

A mid-career survey exhibition of RIGO’s work, Jam Sessions: RIGO 84 – 23, is traveling from The Centro das Artes, Casa das Mudas in Madeira, Portugal onward to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil in 2007.

In October of 2005, a commissioned outdoor sculpture was dedicated on the campus of San Jose State University. RIGO depicted the two 1968 Olympic athletes, Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos in a larger-than-life version of their fisted salute. In 2004 a large mural work was presented at the Orange County Biennial.

A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and Stanford University (MFA), RIGO has also been awarded public commissions for the San Francisco International Airport, the Gerbode Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission, as well as permanent murals and terrazzo walks in Portugal. His much publicized San Francisco murals, “One Tree” and “Inner City Home” have made him a spokesperson for urban San Francisco residents.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented him with the SECA Award in 1999.

Click here to read Siobhan Fleming's article: Walls with Tongues: Muralist RIGO 02 Speaks

Click here for Rigo's project at the 2006 Liverpool Biennial

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