The sixth featured artist in the Timken Museum of Art’s ongoing Summer Artist-in-Residence Program is Marisol Rendón. Rendón was born in Manizales, Colombia but is well known to San Diego’s arts community through her many public artworks and service as a popular professor at Southwestern College. In 2024, she was a recipient of the San Diego Arts Prize. Her residency at the Timken was inspired by her deep admiration for the Renaissance religious imagery and by the Russian devotional icons she has studied in the galleries. Specifically, she has been inspired by these works’ integration of elaborately gilded halos and decorative backgrounds which parallel, in surprising ways, the intricate goldwork of indigenous artisans in Colombia. Rendón alludes to this universal attraction by calling her project for the Timken Tapando el Sol con un Dedo (Covering the Sun with One Finger). Visitors are invited to watch the artist create works in the museum’s Central Gallery during her residency.

Summer Artist in Residency: June 18 – July 3, 2025
On View: July 16 – August 31, 2025