2020CroshawHannah Week 3: Yolanda M. Lopez, Tres Mujeres/Three Generations series, 1976.

One piece by Yolanda M. López that shows López’s interests in depicting, “normal,” Chicana women are her pieces, Self Portrait, Mother, and Grandmother, from her Tres Mujeres/Three Generations series from 1976. These charcoal drawings, each 4x8’, depict a self portrait of López, standing with most of her weight on her back leg and her hand on her hips, staring straight at the viewer. She’s wearing flip flops, and a baggy shirt and set of pants. Her mother is sitting, with her legs crossed at the ankles, one hand resting on her lap and her right elbow props her up, as she also looks at the viewer at an angle. Her grandmother is depicted standing straight-on to the viewer, her hands clasped in front of her, her feet straight under her hip-line. For the other drawings, “each model was asked to copy the original poses of the other two women,” which explores how each chicano woman in López’s family present themselves outside of the virgin, mother, whore Chicana stereotypes.