About Carlos Rolón:
Known for his multi-disciplinary practice whose work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of craft, ritual, beauty, spirituality, identity and its relationship to art history and the institution. Born to a Puerto-Rican family, Rolón’s background allows the artist to explore personal ideas which directly deal with questions of inclusion, aspiration and cultural identity. Often connecting childhood memories, the artist bore witness to the ways in which households have adapted to new American middle-class lifestyles with homes, walls and furniture adorned with ephemera of color, texture, patterns and items brought into the home to create a sense of longing. It is from here Rolón takes inspiration and transforms these vantage points producing a hybrid language of exuberant flora paintings, sculpture, social practice and site-specific installations composed of diverse materials that offer opportunities for self-reflection, rich symbolism and community engagement, bridging the divide between public and private. Rolón explores how cultivated settings and social barriers operate and its relationship to postcolonial spaces. The work is at once melancholic, excessive and exuberant, poised somewhere between celebration and regret. Inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.
About Project Backboard:
Project Backboard renovates public outdoor basketball courts and collaborates with artists and communities to create and install large scale works of art on the court surface using sports specific color coatings. Outdoor basketball courts are at the heart of public parks which are central to a vibrant community. By including "museum quality" works of art on basketball court surfaces Project Backboard makes public parks busier, safer, cleaner and more inviting to families and young women. Project Backboard has been featured in publications such as Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Oprah Magazine, and Franchise. Stories about our work have appeared on ESPN, CNN, CBS and others. Project Backboard recently collaborated with Carlos Rolón on a basketball court and community center rehabilitation in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
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