Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕

Yu-Xin is interested in the history and evolution of pigments. She collects and studies raw materials from site visits, makes her own paint and uses it to illustrate the landscape from which they came. For Yu-Xin, painting is a way to reorder and reinterpret natural and synthetic elements, turning her painting practice into geological exploration. Learn more about Yu-Xin here.

Yvette Mayorga

Yvette’s pink frosting draws you in to tell a story of her girlhood as a 1st generation Mexican-American. In this series, she thinks about three things, 1. “Attaining American-ness”, fitting in by buying things, showing you not only the Polly Pocket she always wanted but the decadent multilevel home inside. 2. She thinks about gendered labor, specifically cake decorating and how it’s treated as “women’s work” and undervalued as such, also honoring her mom who worked as a baker. 3. She also thinks about domestic spaces and how not everyone feels safe at home, considering government surveillance of people’s homes and ICE raids- symbolized by large eyes and tiny mirrors. Learn more about Yvette here.

🍬 Weekly Links 🍬

Up for more art criticism? I love this essay by Blake Gopnik about the late great Ray Francis, “Ray Francis, Celebrating Blackness”

My favorite voice recording app is Otter. It not only records, it creates a summary and lists action items from the remarkably accurate transcript. The free version is all I need to collect my thoughts when I’m driving.

Norah Jones has a new album, Visions, and it’s sooooo good. Watch her perform Paradise (my kids’ favorite song) at her TDC or listen here. 

Thank you for being here! I’ll be back August 23 with more art. Till soon. XxA

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