Yvette Mayorga

Topped with pink piped acrylic paint ribbons, Tweety Hot Lovers (After Century Vase c. 1876) references and reimagines the emblematic American Century Vase. Mayorga replaces the bison-headed handles and the profile of George Washington with plated cell phones and innocent scrawlings of tic-tac-toe over daydreamed clouds. By including charms, gold chains, bows, and the unmistakable visage of Tweety Bird, Mayorga is not only able to express her girlhood and upbringing as a Mexican American in the 90s but also comments on the role of overconsumption in the United States and how it has been embedded into the social conventions of gender expression.
Mayorga’s use of bakery-grade piping bags to apply bubblegum pink acrylics on varying-shaped canvases was inspired by the “confectionary labor” performed by her mother when she worked as a baker after immigrating to the U.S.