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"Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame" is on view at HM&C.The works in "Béisbol Hall of Fame" celebrate the likes of C...
06/04/2026

"Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame" is on view at HM&C.

The works in "Béisbol Hall of Fame" celebrate the likes of Carlos Gómez, Vladimir Guerrero, Pedro Martínez, David Ortiz, Alex Rodríguez, Alfonso Soriano, and Sammy Sosa. While Rodríguez depicted some of these players in silhouette—derived from photographs that he culled from The New York Times—he represented others by name alone, or evoked their talent and celebrity through inspiring statistics. Rodríguez suggested that the silhouette speaks to racial equality as it does not reference skin color, instead focusing on accomplishment. Rodríguez gestured towards the expansive nature of these players’ fame; they are embedded in a collective popular consciousness that transcends the realm of sports.

Works from Rodríguez’s baseball series are held in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, NY and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. This series was first exhibited in 2006 in "America's Pastime: Portrait of the Dominican Dream" at The Newark Museum, NJ, curated by E. Carmen Ramos, currently Chief curatorial and conservation officer of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Please join us for a conversation with Alejandro Anreus, PhD about Freddy Rodríguez's obsessions- from Art to Popular Cu...
06/02/2026

Please join us for a conversation with Alejandro Anreus, PhD about Freddy Rodríguez's obsessions- from Art to Popular Culture. Scholarly but also personal, the conversation will cover a 30 odd year friendship of museum visits, books and cds exchanged, as well as long conversations about sports, popular music, politics, religion, and family.

Wednesday, June 17th at 6:00pm
Please e-mail [email protected] to RSVP

"TEMPO VERTICAL. En el fondo del oído, una imagen," a duo exhibition by Alejandro Corujeira and Eduardo Martín Del Pozo,...
06/01/2026

"TEMPO VERTICAL. En el fondo del oído, una imagen," a duo exhibition by Alejandro Corujeira and Eduardo Martín Del Pozo, with a curatorial text by Claudia Rodríguez-Ponga, will open at Galería Fermay on June 4th.

"The nature of sound is to be invisible. And that of painting, to be silent. It is within such circumstance where it lies both the great complexity and the great power of the articulation between these two worlds. Pascal Quignard speaks of the “shamanic pair” formed by hearing and sight: “the singer and the seer,” “the thunder and the lightning.”"
— Claudia Rodríguez-Ponga

We look forward to an upcoming solo exhibition of Alejandro Corujeira's work at HM&C, opening September 23rd.


HM&C artist Priscilla Monge’s solo exhibition, "Canchas desiguales: El terreno de juego no es igual para todos" (Unequal...
05/30/2026

HM&C artist Priscilla Monge’s solo exhibition, "Canchas desiguales: El terreno de juego no es igual para todos" (Unequal Fields: The Playing Field Is Not the Same for Everyone) presented in collaboration with Fundación Televisa, celebrating the Mexican host cities of the FIFA World Cup 2026, opens at MAZ (Museo de Arte de Zapopan), Guadalajara, Mexico on June 4th.

Through these three installations - a soccer field on uneven terrain marked by slopes - Monge establishes a metaphor for inequality: in Mexico, more than 38% of children and adolescents live in multidimensional poverty. Not everyone starts the game on equal footing, but rather uphill; not due to a lack of talent, but because of the unequal conditions that surround them.

The installation will be activated by the public, who is invited to play on Monge's fields, June 2, 3, and 4, at three venues during the 2026 World Cup. Each of the three host cities—Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Mexico City—possesses a distinct social and urban configuration, and these differences affect how each field is activated in each location. The three fields are not identical repetitions; rather, they are variations on Monge's inquiry.

(June 2nd) Monterrey — Macro Plaza, in front of MARCO
(June 3rd) Guadalajara — MAZ
(June 4th) Mexico City — Tamayo Museum (esplanade)

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary presented a solo exhibition, "Priscilla Monge: The Archived Body" in 2023.

Learn more about the artist by viewing her virtual Study Room on Hutchinsonmodern.com



From the Archives: Freddy Rodríguez looking at his composition studies in his studio located at 133 West 22nd Street, N...
05/30/2026

From the Archives: Freddy Rodríguez looking at his composition studies in his studio located at 133 West 22nd Street, New York, in 1974.

Freddy Rodríguez was born in 1945 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. He relocated to New York City in 1963 due to the political climate at home. Rodríguez proceeded to study painting at the Art Students League and the New School for Social Research, as well as textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. By 1970 Rodríguez had established his painting studio in Chelsea, and eight years later moved to Flushing, Queens, where he lived and worked for over four decades until his death in 2022.

Rodríguez’s works from the 1970s engaged with geometric abstraction, often referencing the literary works of esteemed Latin American writers. By the 1980s he began working in series, adapting his style to suit the carefully researched subject of each series. Inspired by the Dominican Republic, Caribbean culture, histories of migration, and his personal identity, the artist addressed themes including the conquest and colonization of native people by Europeans, the figure of the “cimarron,” Catholicism, the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, and baseball.

"Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame" is currently on view at HM&C. Visit us 11:00 AM–5:00 PM, Wednesday–Saturday. Appointments outside regular hours are welcome.

A special visit to “Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame” last week from Arlene Dávila!Arlene Dávila is a Professor of...
05/29/2026

A special visit to “Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame” last week from Arlene Dávila!

Arlene Dávila is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University and the founding director of The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary center focusing on Latinx art and culture and hosting artists and curatorial projects at NYU.

"Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame," is the first posthumous solo exhibition of work by Dominican-born New York-based artist Freddy Rodríguez (1945-2022). The exhibition features twelve works from Rodríguez’s Baseball series in a range of media: from works on paper and paintings, to neon sculpture and installation.



Artwork:
Freddy Rodríguez (1945-2022)
"Pedro the Great," 2005
Neon relief
14 x 48 in (35.6 x 121.9 cm)

HM&C Artist Spotlight: Raquel Rabinovich (1929-2025)Rabinovich referenced the German painter, printmaker, and theorist o...
05/28/2026

HM&C Artist Spotlight: Raquel Rabinovich (1929-2025)

Rabinovich referenced the German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer's 1514 print "Melencolia I" in her "Homage to Albrecht Dürer" series. She was inspired by the enigmatic Magic Square located in the upper right hand corner of Durer's print, in which the sum of the inscribed numbers counted in any direction adds up to 34. Magic Squares are ancient symbols of occult or mythical significance and of esoteric spirituality. They imply the combination of numbers that were believed to be the source of the essence of wisdom.

“Raquel Rabinovich: Gateless” was recently on view at HM&C. For inquiries regarding this artwork and others by Rabinovich, please contact us at [email protected]

Images 1 & 2:
Left: Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, Engraving print, 1514. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Right: Raquel Rabinovich, "Homage to Albrecht Dürer 1 (Inspired by Melancholia 1)," 2021

Image 3:
Raquel Rabinovich,
"Homage to Albrecht Dürer 1 (Inspired by Melancholia 1)," 2021
Oil, wax, pencil and rubber stamped black ink on canvas
30 x 48 in (76.2 x 121.9 cm)

HM&C Artist Spotlight: Esteban LisaEsteban LisaJuego con líneas y colores, 1958Signed Lila and dated 28-5-1958Oil on pap...
05/26/2026

HM&C Artist Spotlight: Esteban Lisa

Esteban Lisa
Juego con líneas y colores, 1958
Signed Lila and dated 28-5-1958
Oil on paper
13 5/8 x 9 5/8 in (34.5 x 24.5 cm)

Esteban Lisa was interested in the intersections of philosophy, science, and art and in the contributions made by each field’s respective ‘representatives’, Kant, Einstein, and Picasso. For Lisa, a philosophical point of connection could be made between art and science as there are “similarities between abstractions in mathematics and abstractions in the modern art of painting.” [1] Lisa elaborates on his own musings of these great intellectuals in his essay Kant, Einstein, and Picasso which he self-published in 1956.

[1] Lisa Esteban, Kant, Einstein Y Picasso: La Filosofia Y “Las Cuatro Dimensiones” En La Ciencia Estética Moderna, Talleres Gráficos Vicente Rottondi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1956, 19

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary presented "The Multiple Dimensions of Esteban Lisa" (2022).

For inquiries regarding this artwork and others by Esteban Lisa, please contact us at [email protected]

"Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame" is on view at HM&C.Freddy Rodríguez"Pride of New York (Alfonso Soriano)," 2005A...
05/25/2026

"Freddy Rodríguez: Béisbol Hall of Fame" is on view at HM&C.

Freddy Rodríguez
"Pride of New York (Alfonso Soriano)," 2005
Acrylic with newspaper collage on canvas
52 x 36 in (132.1 x 91.4 cm)

Alfonso Soriano, (b. 1976, Dominican Republic) played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball with a style defined by constant aggression at the plate and relentless energy on the bases. A seven-time All-Star and member of the 40/40 club, he played with an aggressive, high-risk style. Soriano used an unusually large bat and regularly produced home runs and extra-base hits while attempting high steal totals throughout his career. He played every game like he was in his own backyard, with the same carefree intensity on every pitch. In MLB history, there have been only seven seasons with at least 35 home runs, 35 doubles, and 35 stolen bases, and Soriano owns three of them—more than any other player.

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