I will be presenting the life and work of Diane Gamboa. She particularly stood out to me due to her aesthetic. Her name and her art flourished during the 1980's in East Los Angeles. Her art entails of pre-Columbian iconography meshed with Mexican-inspiried patterns and motifs. Furthermore, she was heavily involved in the East Los Angeles punk rock scene. Gamboa has been producing art for more than 20 years and is concentrated in giving back to her fellow art community.
Her art in particular explore the female body, and I admire how she is not afraid to be explicit. These pieces depict the burdens that women in particular experience during unhealthy relationships and living in a patriarchal society in general. In one of her art series, she includes males as a subject from the female perspective, which represent and embody the toxic relationships that couples do endure. She expresses that men intoxicate her and other days she finds men to be revolting.
Interestingly, she is self-taught because she believes this allowed her to be versatile and thus allowing her art not to be conformed. Diane Gamboa is incredibly different and I admire that about her, she is covered in tattoos which something insanely aggressive about her, which I admire a lot. I appreciate her life and work, and it is incredible to know the amount of how long she has been doing art, her first exhibit at age five. She is definitely redefining for what it means to be an artist, someone who is real and raw and definitely passionate.
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