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The Nap

Artist: Vazquez Rodriguez, Laura

Object Date: 2017

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Imperial Dims: Unframed: 11 x 14 in.

Department(s): Aging and Disabilities

Address Name: Los Nietos Community and Senior Center

Supervisorial District: 4

About the Artwork:

The Los Nietos Community Senior Center, formerly Los Nietos Library, was rededicated as a Community and Senior Center in 2017. As part of the renovation plans for Los Nietos Community Senior Center, the Civic Art Division selected four artists, Wayne Healy, Pola Lopez, Andrea Ramirez, and Laura Vasquez Rodriguez, to provide artworks for the newly renovated facility. The artworks include twelve paintings and limited-edition prints placed in the Center's entrance corridor and community room. They consist of figurative works reflecting a diversity of ages in family friendly depictions of community life and activities consistent with the Center's programming.

About the Artist:

Laura Vazquez Rodriguez was born in Los Angeles and raised in the small community of Pico Rivera. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specializing in Illustration, from California State University, Long Beach. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas and carved wood panels, Rodriguez is best known for using strong and continuous lines to construct graphic images centered on themes of spirituality, life and death, love and healing, and mother and child. Her artwork has been showcased on book covers, educational posters, documentaries and periodicals, and is included in numerous private and public art collections. She has created art for CABE (California Association of Bilingual Education) and AMAE (Association of Mexican American Educators). Her most recent works include a logo for the City of Los Angeles and the cover art for Roberto Rodriguez’s book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas. To learn more visit: https://lauravrodriguez.net/