Identified for her delectable, frilly, sometimes ominous acrylic work made with bakery instruments, Yvette Mayorga (previously) nods to reminiscences of her mom working as a baker and references Baroque and Rococo artwork whereas critically analyzing household, neighborhood, and notions of prosperity.
Mayorga’s items are “dominated by shades of pink to critically look at the American Dream and the Latinx expertise, typically borrowing compositions from private and household photographs and artwork historical past,” says Monique Meloche Gallery, which presents a solo present of the artist’s work opening this weekend.
flakes, silver flakes, textile, belt, rhinestones, nail charms and acrylic
piping on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Pu$h Through, the artist’s first present with the gallery and the primary in her hometown of Chicago since 2018, takes a semi-autobiographical method by reflecting on her experiences over the last decade within the metropolis. Past her attribute confection-inspired works, she has created large-scale compositions incorporating discovered objects like lampshades, clothes, and jewellery, together with bits of ceramic, pastels, gold foil, acrylic nails, and extra.
Many of those works draw on Mayorga’s private reminiscences, like snapshots of the artist as a baby throughout a celebration or sitting in her household’s front room. Converging with romantic Rococo aesthetics and magnificence, like portraits modeled after Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun or Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the artist addresses the Euro-centric narrative of artwork historical past and its overarching omission of different identities. Mayorga has even coined a time period to explain her method, “Latinxoco,” which merges Latinx id with Rococo aesthetics.
“Pink, a coloration that has an extended historical past with Mayorga’s apply, is deployed as a conceptual technique to destabilize Western beliefs of pores and skin tone, evoking questions of race, class, and gendered embodiment whereas additionally referencing beauty and home aesthetics—an ironic and radical reclamation of softness as power,” the gallery says.
Pu$h Through runs from June 14 to July 26. See extra on the artist’s website and Instagram.
Sequence)” (2025), discovered objects and acrylic piping on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Sequence)” (2025), discovered objects and acrylic piping on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
