"[The] works predominate with punchy pink and are grounded in her personal and familial histories as a child of Mexican immigrants raised in the Midwest during the ’90s and ’00s. Mayorga’s elaborately frosted compositions lure viewers into a maximalist world where 18th-century Rococo meets a Y2K teen-bedroom dreamscape and the Latinx experience in the US.
But Mayorga’s eye-catching confections are anything but saccharine. Embedded in the cheery, sugary-sweet aesthetics are the darker realities of pursuing the American dream, with oblique commentary on gender, immigration, consumerism, labor, and belonging."
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September 19, 2023
