In Cadaques: Waiting for Picabia, Rodeiro painted himself and the Bolivian poet Nicomedes
Suárez-Araúz in front of Spain’s Bar Melitón, along with French-American pioneer of conceptual art
Marcel Duchamp, Spanish poet Federico García-Lorca and Spanish artist Salvador Dalí while they wait
for French-Cuban painter Francis Picabia.
He spent time abroad in Central
America, South America and Europe.
During that period, he earned a rare
Visual Artist Fellowship in painting from
the National Endowment for the Arts,
which he used in Barcelona, Spain; a grant
from the Fulbright Scholars’ program,
which he used in Nicaragua; along with
grants from the Cintas Foundation and
the Inter-American-Development Bank.
His work has been exhibited at the
Miami Dade Museum of Art Design;
the Monmouth Museum, the Union City
Museum and Rutgers University, all in
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New Jersey; the Museum of Fine Arts
in Hagerstown, Maryland; and at many
other museums and galleries throughout
the world. Rodeiro has lectured on art
and taught art history at the university
level.
He is well known for his intellectual
approach to the creation of art. In his artist
statement, he says art must be innately
tempered with a sublime, individual and
intuitive cognizance of the enigmatic,
the visionary, the imaginative and the
divine, which manifests in his art as an
innovative, ingenious spiritual quality.