05/21/2026
Abacot, 2019 by Juan Alonso-Rodríguez 💫
🎨 Details
36” x 36”, acrylic on unprimed canvas
📍Location
Level 1-2, Gallery Wall
🖼️ About the Piece
From the Horizon series, Abacot has a rich metallic bronze upper area with the lower third of the horizon relying on the patina the bronze paint creates as it flows downward on the lighter painted canvas.
🧑🎨 About the Artist
Juan Alonso-Rodríguez is a Cuban-born, self-taught artist with a career spanning over three decades in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and is included in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum,
Portland Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Microsoft, Vulcan, Swedish & Harborview Hospitals and General Mills, among others. He has created public works for Lumen Link Field, Sea/Tac Airport, King County Housing Authority, Epiphany School, Sound Transit, Chief Sealth High School, and Renton Technical College. Besides a 2019 Artist Trust Fellowship, his awards include two GAP’s, the 1997 Neddy Fellowship, a 2010 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award, the 2016 DeJunius Hughes Award for Activism, the 2017 Conductive Garboil Grant, the 2019 Governor’s Arts Award for an Individual Artist, and was selected as the 2021 Lecturer for the UW Libraries Artist Images.
View Juan Alonso-Rodríguez art at www.juanalonsostudio.com and view the rest of the USBC Art Collection artist at art.usbcseattle.com. 🔗
