Edel Rodriguez: Weaponized Cover Art, Viral Dissent.
Cuban-American illustrator Edel Rodriguez is known for work that criticizes the administration. His latest piece is a personal statement about immigration.
Edel Rodriguez is one of the top illustrators in the world right now with his work dotting everything from exhibition floors to protest rallies as well as magazine covers. The visual artist dubbed “America’s Illustrator-in-chief by Fast Company, has been at the forefront of trying to help Americans, and the rest of the world, make sense of the Donald Trump presidency. Edel is a Cuban.
Edel Rodriguez: Having grown up in Cuba and then coming to America, I understand what it’s like to feel like one is floating between two lands, two cultures, two languages. The image of a bird flying between the two lands and sea below seemed like an apt metaphor. I added the girl’s face to one of the wings to give the viewer a more personal connection to the writer’s story.
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Illustration; 0; Cuban-American artist Edel Rodriguez has received plenty of attention for his Donald Trump front covers over the past year, but we’ve never managed a mention here on magCulture. This week an exhibition of his work opens in the US, so now is our chance to highlight his designs. One of the few upsides of Trump’s election as US President has been the reinvigoration of the.
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist who has exhibited internationally with shows in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Havana, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Spain. He was born in Havana, Cuba in 1971. He was raised in El Gabriel, a small farm town surrounded by fields of tobacco and sugar cane. In 1980 Rodriguez and his family boarded a boat and left for America during the Mariel.