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Creation Date
2025
Dimensions
18 x 36 Inches
Materials
Acrylic on Gesso Board, Hair, Ceramic
Medium
Painting
Project Advisor
Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation
2025
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
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Artist Statement
This body of work depicts celebration and community brought together by culture. I use different textures, fabrics and materials in artwork for dimension. I combine pieces of my heritage together to create scenes of festivities. I use my artwork to celebrate aspects of my identity, gender and culture. By adding pieces that are 3D, I’m inviting the viewer to enjoy in the festivities I am sharing. By using bright colors and thick layers of paint, I recreate traditional textiles.
Even through the bright colors of celebration, I still would like to ask the questions that never get answers through the people I depict. Why does our gender determines the role we have in Mexican society and our future? I want to be able to celebrate my community while asking for the opportunity to change societal gender roles. The celebration of community, culture and colonialism unifies the multi-dimensional aspects in this work.