Rodrigo Hernández: A Personal Constellation of Images

 Chrystal Gayle

October 17, 2025

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On view from September 3 to October 23, 2025, Rodrigo Hernández’s first exhibition with the gallery offered a quietly captivating journey through material, myth, and memory. Hernández, known for working across painting, relief, sculpture, and installation, used this exhibition to form what he called a “personal constellation of images.” The title, borrowed from a poem by Bernadette Mayer, hinted at the show’s poetic rhythm, where meaning seemed to float between dream and reality.

Walking through the exhibition felt like entering a space that balanced restraint and imagination. Many of the works shimmered with subtle gold tones, like visual echoes of something ancient yet newly discovered. In one striking piece, a delicate figure seemed to emerge from a hammered brass surface, the smooth curves of the form suggesting rest, reflection, or perhaps a kind of spiritual surrender.

Another piece, also rendered in gold toned relief, presented a structured, almost architectural composition. Its overlapping panels created a sense of rhythm and containment, and at the very bottom, a small human figure walked across the scene. The scale shift was fascinating, as if this lone figure were navigating the towering structures of memory or history itself. The way Hernández layered planes and textures gave the work an almost cinematic feeling, as though time was unfolding vertically.