Yvette Mayorga's latest exhibit Dreaming of You encompasses religious iconography, colonial history, and Y2K nostalgia
It’s hard to believe that multi-disciplinary artist Yvette Mayorga had never visited an art museum until she was 18 years old.Instead, the rich and colorful world that surrounded Mayorga, a Mexican-American artist known for her highly-decorated, confectionary inspired work, provided enough inspiration and visual stimulation to inform her practice. That inspiration is on full display in her latest exhibition, Dreaming Of You, which is now on show at The Aldrich.
Her installations are often awash in a cheery, bubblegum pink—a central motif in the Mayorga artistic universe—that lures the viewer in before confronting them with the harsh realities of pursuing the American dream as a person of color. In addition to an excessive usage of pink, she enlists baking tools, primarily piping bags, as a callback to her mother’s work as a baker at a department store in the 1970s.
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