Rodríguez-Díaz is known for both his highly political portrait work and obelisk-like public sculptures. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX SanAntonioArts TexasArts Texas visualart
. “He makes a critique of pollution, or fossil fuels, greed, corruption and war in the genre of self-portraiture.”
The San Antonio Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and museums added Rodríguez-Díaz's portrait work to their collections, making him among the city's highest-profile visual artists., a 28-foot-high sculpture at the Blanco Road roundabout in Beacon Hill, was commissioned by the city in 2014.
Rodríguez-Díaz has shown his portraits since the 1980s. More recently, he added large-scale public artworks to his repertoire. The City of San Antonio commissioned him in 2014 to create a pair of metal obelisks along Blanco and Basse Roads. The 28-foot sculptures, both embellished with intricate cutouts, were intended to honor Mexican American workers at the former Alamo Cement plant, according to Cordova.
Rodríguez-Díaz was born in Puerto Rico and relocated to San Antonio in 1995 to live with his partner Rolando Briseño, a celebrated artist in his own right.
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