Daniel Rios Rodriguez in Artforum

October 2, 2025

Daniel Rios Rodriguez at Seven Sisters

By: Natilee Harren

There was much to reward scrupulous viewers of Daniel Rios Rodriguez’s fussed-over paintings, with their hand-built frames, graceful orchestrations of unruly color, and judiciously applied bits of canvas, semiprecious stones, gold leaf, and sculpted wire. In Midnight Electrician, 2025, a tiny pebble of turquoise seemed to regard itself in some nearby shards of mirror, which have been carefully set into the work’s frame. With our gaze scaled to the mineral’s point of view, the composition’s laborious details gradually come into riveting focus. A faceless figure climbs a floating staircase past a canvas-scrap lightning bolt and involuted-wire sun toward a mountaintop home ringed in an aureole of gold. From there, a magenta river wends downward to a green form resembling a snail shell, a shape partially derived from Mesoamerican virgulas—tonguelike spirals that signify speech.

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