Yvette Mayorga at Museo de Arte Zapopan

Yvette Mayorga at Museo de Arte Zapopan

Yvette Mayorga at Museo de Arte Zapopan
Highlighting the ART FOR CHANGE artist's museum exhibition

 
Yvette Mayorga at the opening of her solo exhibition, The Golden Cage. Image courtesy of Lazarillo and the artist.

Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through the guise of using pink as a weapon of mass destruction. On view now at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mayorga’s exhibit, The Golden Cage, presents an alternative world, one that is here and now in Mexico -- in her first solo exhibition outside of the United States -- but also one that is saccharine and artificial. 

As a teenage room, with posters containing aspirations, affections, and desires, Mayorga brings together images as well as found objects. Her work evokes the transitory vital sense of memento mori and the ephemeral material richness of vanitas, it is a celebration of the fleetingness of the moment.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Mayorga explains: "through investigating colonialism, and then tying that to art history, I started to also map out the ways in which colonialism has had its obvious impacts within my family lineage, which I can also link to migration and how we ended up here. To me, rococo is sort of a perfect way to reference the American dream."


In her 2023 limited edition print with ART FOR CHANGE, The Reenactment with Nike Air Jordans After the Last Supper, Mayorga explores similar themes of labor, belonging, and surveillance.

SHOP THE PRINT


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YVETTE MAYORGA
The Reenactment with Nike Air Jordans After the Last Supper, 2023
21.5 x 21.5 inches

Limited edition of 10
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist

Limited edition of 30 with 5AP + 1PP
Signed and numbered by the artist

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Rendered in Mayorga’s signature pink and frosted style, The Reenactment with Nike Air Jordans After the Last Supper is compositionally inspired by a photograph that she captured inside her childhood home. The artist’s nieces and nephew are seated before a dining table covered with overabundant details, such as flip phones, gilded plates, and rose stems. Dressed in eighteenth-century garbs, the nieces don acrylic nails encrusted with decor accessories, while the nephew clutches a pair of Nike sneakers for viewing pleasure. Mayorga infuses a Rococo style of ornamentation into her depictions of the archetypal Latinx home and the objects within—for instance, the reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper hanging behind the primary figures, which takes after a store-bought rendition that has resided in her parents’ dining room for over thirty years. As a whole, the work comments on the new forms of currency and privilege, as well as what is perceived as luxury, within our contemporary world. Ten prints in the edition are hand-embellished by the artist, who has added additional details including silver paint and reflective material.

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Yvette Mayorga holding her 2023 ART FOR CHANGE print, The Reenactment with Nike Air Jordans After the Last Supper.

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Yvette Mayorga hand-embellishing her 2023 ART FOR CHANGE print, The Reenactment with Nike Air Jordans After the Last Supper.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST
 
Yvette Mayorga is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work links feminized labor and the aesthetics of celebration to colonial art history and racialized oppression through the guise of using pink as a weapon of mass destruction. Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA; El Museo del Barrio, the Center for Craft, Asheville, NC; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX; and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Currently, Mayorga is working on a large-scale installation for the City of Chicago’s permanent public art collection at O’Hare International Airport’s Terminal 5. Mayorga has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, DAZED, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, Latina Magazine, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, The New York Times, W Magazine, and Women’s Wear Daily. Her works are in the permanent collections of 21c Museum Hotels, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New Mexico State University Art Museum.

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