Charlie James Gallery presents Abel Rodriguez: Aguante, featuring soft pastel and pencil works drawn from personal photos and memorabilia of the artist’s 1990s–2000s childhood. These images capture teenage life—friends, fashion, gestures—steeped in nostalgia and resilience. Rodriguez honors the bonds formed in migrant and working-class communities while resisting cultural erasure. The work memorializes identity, belonging, and survival in a time and place often marked by hardship and transition.
