Rosario Rivera-Bond
by Kelly Zhong

Throughout her career, Rosario Rivera-Bond has captured her surrounding world in abstract expressionist paintings. Her works start with an action developed from a line or a wash of color, which explains why the artist prefers to work on large canvases that, although providing her with a challenge, are suitable fields for expanding the intense emotionality that nourishes her work. Her contents come forth throughout the process of painting and are manifested intuitively with each brushstroke and layer of paint.

In Quantum Theories, spontaneous strokes of pink, neon yellow, and black overlap fields of soft blues, purples, and greys. Her brushwork dances across the canvas while small dots of bright colors are applied intentionally on top of black gestures. These dots are reminiscent of stars or the polka dot fabrics on a woman’s dress. In addition, they wink at urban femininity, a constant reference in Rivera-Bond’s work. The colors in the artist’s paintings are spontaneous but not arbitrary. She chooses colors in response to her daily life and through the painting process. The artist’s muted background, bright lines, and meticulous details build a fascinating visual experience.

15 Flourishing Latin American Artists in Miami. (United States of America: Pan Paniscus Art Service LLC, 2023), pp. 56-59.