BIO

Jessenya Rodriguez is a Miami-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice investigates the interplay of form and color through large-scale painting and immersive installations. Her work incorporates mixed media elements such as sound, digital media, and light, creating environments that engage the viewer in a dialogue between personal experience and the immediate spatial perceptions of the mind.

Though classically trained in portrait and figure painting, Rodriguez has shifted toward abstract and non-objective approaches, using form, color, and composition to explore phenomenological and metaphysical perception. Her evolving practice is developing a visual language that transcends the boundaries of perceived reality, moving into the realm of the sublime.

Rodriguez is currently an MFA candidate at Florida International University.

Artist Statement

I explore form and color to initiate a dialogue between the viewer's lived experience and their immediate, spatial perceptions. By integrating installation as a core element, I invite the audience to immerse themselves in a sensory exploration through large-scale paintings, media projections, light sculptures, and sound art. The installation creates an interconnected experience, where each piece communicates with the others, disrupting and expanding the viewer’s perceptual boundaries.

Through my ongoing project, On the Dialogue of the Spiritual, I guide viewers to shift their perception toward a higher stream of consciousness. As painting evolves into dimensionality across different spatial planes, I open pathways for interaction that challenge traditional boundaries of interpretation.

In my experiments with form and color, I shape a visual language that engages the viewer on a deeper, more conscious level. My work brings together dynamic variations of lines, shapes, and color, orchestrated in harmony with the movement of color to elevate the experience of the sublime. By embracing monumental scale, I amplify the intensity of this experience, invoking a sense of awe and transcendence. In releasing form and color from their conventional constraints, I create a vision that communicates beyond the limits of reason, engaging with the ineffable—those aspects of existence that transcend logical understanding but resonate deeply with emotion.

This experience reshapes thought and language, moving beyond their traditional roles to dwell in a space of indeterminacy. Though elusive and unquantifiable, this space is profoundly felt—a realm where all things both begin and end. It is here that the viewer is invited to enter a state of heightened understanding and expanded awareness.