Image: Pace Prints, New York
Pace Prints will present ‘Lo grabado de lo vivido (What is etched from what has been lived),’ a new exhibition of monoprints by Gamaliel Rodríguez, opening September 10 and remaining on view through October 10, 2026. The show will be installed at 536 West 22nd Street in New York, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. According to the gallery, the presentation marks Rodríguez’s first solo exhibition with Pace Prints.
The exhibition focuses on new monoprints that, in the gallery’s description, draw on vivid images of Rodríguez’s native Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. Pace Prints says the works revisit concerns central to the artist’s practice while also pushing his printmaking into a larger scale. The monoprints are rendered on sweeping surfaces exceeding four feet across, giving Rodríguez room to translate landscape into an expanded pictorial field.
At the center of the presentation is Rodríguez’s ongoing interest in the tension between nature and built space. Pace Prints describes the works as transforming landscapes of the artist’s homeland into meditations on the contested relationship between the natural world and the built environment. In the new body of work, lush vegetation appears alongside industrial infrastructure and remnants of colonial architecture, placing ecological imagery in direct conversation with signs of extraction, labor, and historical occupation.
The gallery says the monoprints were created in close collaboration with its master printmakers, and that the project extends Rodríguez’s drawing and painting practice into new territory. Drawing has long served as the foundation of his work, including his use of ballpoint pen to emulate the fine lines of drypoint etching. In this exhibition, printmaking becomes a means of enlarging that visual language while introducing what Pace Prints calls the archival permanence of the medium.
The process behind the new works begins with photographic source material, much of it captured by Rodríguez himself while running through the landscapes he depicts. He then paints directly onto printing plates before selectively removing pigment, allowing the paper to emerge as passages of light within the image. Pace Prints says this subtractive method gives the prints a distinct luminosity and supports the atmospheric quality that has become a hallmark of his work.
The gallery also notes that Rodríguez’s electric palette recalls the look of vintage travel postcards and tourist advertisements, while subtly unsettling those familiar images. Although the scenes can read as tropical at first glance, Pace Prints says they are rooted in specific sites tied to commerce, production and power, including the Milwaukee War Museum, the ethanol power plant in Medina, New York, and the Cataño distillery in Puerto Rico. The exhibition will be on view at Pace Prints’ Main Gallery at 536 West 22nd Street from September 10 to October 10, 2026.
