Sean Nesselrode Moncada’s Maruja Rolando: On-Site will be the first critical biography of the Venezuelan painter, printmaker, and archeologist Maruja Rolando (1923–1970), whose practice questioned the universalism of abstraction by insisting on collaboration, materiality, and the particularities of place.
Sean Nesselrode Moncada is associate professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). His research focuses on the contested socio-ecological dimensions of modernism in Venezuela in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela (University of California Press, 2023) and his writing has appeared in publications including Architectural Theory Review, Caiana, Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, and Trópico Absoluto.