Monochromatic Dreams

Yvette Mayorga

1/31/20 - 2/29/20

Opens Friday, January 31st, 7-10pm

In Monochromatic Dreams, Mayorga uses pink as a tool of discomfort to defy gender norms and anxieties of bodies in our current landscape. The works piped with lush thick pastels stand as utopian dreamscapes collaged with personal imagery, technology, toys, and Rococo vases that allude towards a current state of constant surveillance and its excess on display in the media. The Rococo ceramics become moments of encapsulation of present histories intertwined with a colonial past that has contributed to current desires of indulgence.

Yvette Mayorga is a multimedia installation artist. She uses confection, industrial materials, and American iconography like the board game Candy Land as a conceptual framework to juxtapose the borderlands of the US/Mexico.
Mayorga holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mayorga has exhibited at The Vincent Price Art Museum, EXPO Chicago, Art Design Chicago, LACMA's Pacific Standard Time, the Chicago Artists Coalition, The National Museum of Mexican Art, GEARY Contemporary. Mayorga has attended the The Fountainhead Residency, BOLT Residency, and is a recipient of the MAKER Grant.