Included in the exhibition are oil on canvas paintings that feature Rivera’s unique fusion of lush colorful patterns inspired by tribal folk art and the brightly painted homes that surrounded him as a young man, combined with a vigorous expressive painting style influenced by Abstract Expressionism and Mexican Modernist painters.
Also included in the exhibition will be rarely seen early ‘Combines’, a term coined by Robert Rauschenberg in the early 1950s. Rivera creatively employs re-purposed materials that results in three dimensional forms that blur the line between painting and sculpture.
This is Rivera’s first major showing in Marin County.
