Known for her delicious, frilly, sometimes ominous acrylic paintings made with bakery tools, Yvette Mayorga (Earlier) nods about memories of her mother who works as a baker and references Baroque and Rococo Art and at the same time critically examine the family, community and notions of prosperity.
The pieces of Mayorga are “dominated by pink shades to critically examine the American Dream and the Latinx experience, which often borrow compositions from personal and family photos and art history,” says Monique Meloche GalleryWho presents a solo show of the work of the artist who open this weekend.
PU $ H ThruThe first show of the artist with the gallery and the first in her hometown Chicago since 2018, a semi-autobiographical approach has been used by thinking about her experiences in the last decade in the city. In addition to her characteristic clothing-inspired works, she has made large-scale compositions with found objects such as lampshades, clothing and jewelry, along with pieces of ceramics, pastel colors, gold foil, acrylic nails and more.
Many of these works draw on the personal memories of Mayorga, such as Snapshots of the artist as a child during a birthday party or sit in the living room of her family. Converging with romantic rococo -testics and style, such as portraits modeled. Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun or Jean-Honoré Fragonardthe artist sets up the euro-centric story of art history and the umbrella omission of other identities. Mayorga has even devised a term to describe her approach, ‘Latinxoco’, which merges the Latinx identity with Rococo -Eesthetics.
“Pink, a color that has a long history with the practice of Mayorga, is used as a conceptual strategy to destabilize western ideals of skin color, to raise questions from race, class and gender, while it also refers to cosmetic and domestic aesthetics as a galry and radical,” says an impeller and radical.
PU $ H Thru runs from June 14 to July 26. See more about the artist website And Instagram.
