Carlos Rolón: Outside/In

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The exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, featuring the work of Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón, will be on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Rolón is internationally recognized for paintings, sculptures and installations that break down walls. His project for NOMA explores the rich connections between New Orleans, Latin America and the Caribbean, from their shared tropical landscape to the intricate wrought iron fences—rejas in Spanish—that makr each place's architecture.

Working with materials such as shattered glass, wrought iron fences, and construction cinderblocks, Rolón takes these barriers to access and transforms them into new points of entry, creating intricate constructions that connect indoors to outdoors, private to public, and local to global. Through artworks that draw upon popular culture, craft and art history, the show examines the nature of identity, integration and aspiration in immigrant and diasporic communities across the globe.

A continuation of a project begun in 2016 at the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, Outside/In combines an exuberant tropical flora and fauna with installations composed of fences and fragmented mirrors that offer opportunities for self-reflection and community engagement. Incorporating elements such as ironwork, tropical vegetation, and mosaic benches, Rolón creates an immersive experience that transforms NOMA’s galleries into spaces for community gathering and conversation.

Outside/In will be presented with bilingual exhibition content in both English and Spanish. noma.org.