Monochromal, oversaturated, soothing—it’s the pink of panaderias, of architecture in Mexico.
Stereotypically, it is thought of as a girl’s color: consigned to the realm of Barbie dolls. Yet to School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Yvette Mayorga (MFA 2016), the disarming nature of all-pink everything is a coercion, an invitation to look at what all this chicano and femme projection covers up.
“I like world building,” said Mayorga, a Chicago-based artist whose first East Coast solo exhibition, Thinking of You, is currently on display at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Whether in smaller pieces with dimensions that resemble a blown-up locket, or in much larger ones that assume the role of art environments, her works ooze with surprise.
