Week 8_Art Presentations

One of the artists that caught my attention and love their participation in changing art in the Latinx community was Lady Pink, Sandra Fabara.  Fabara is an Ecuadorian-American graffiti and mural artist.  She specializes in public art but it is a different style that the art world does not approve of. Most of her works deal with Graffiti, showcasing art on New York’s property. I have always appreciated the Graffiti world that has a good taste because they tell a visual story or a narration of the artist. The graffiti can also be the artist's signature on how they want to be perceived or be associated with. There is graffiti that is tasteless and promotes violence in marginalized communities. Graffiti is a subculture within the art world which is great going against the mass society perception of art. Although graffiti art shows resistant the majority was made up of men and influence by patriarchal views within marginalized communities. Fabara was competing with other men and killing the game by knowing how to work around the system and still have her art display. Fabara uses graffiti and art to empower herself as a woman in a patriarchal society and her peers who appreciate her work. In the artworks, Graffiti is looked down upon and not considered art but as a crime. Lady Pink uses Graffiti to claim a space in New York as a Latinx individual and uses it to express her creativity.  She is a rebellious and resilient artist that making street art for her audience and to emphasize the importance of feminism. Lady Pink art gave voice to her community that experience institutional violence by the United States such as gentrification and wealth gap.