Workshops at Binders in Atlanta! (August 2024)
Come join one of my workshops at the Binders store Buckhead location! Click the workshop titles below to learn more, see supply lists, and register:
August 10th 1-3 pm : Abstract Landscape Monotype for adults
August 17th 1-3 pm : Personal Imagery in Abstract Painting for adults
August 24th 1-3:30 pm : Drawing Foundations for Teens
August 10th 1-3 pm : Abstract Landscape Monotype for adults
August 17th 1-3 pm : Personal Imagery in Abstract Painting for adults
August 24th 1-3:30 pm : Drawing Foundations for Teens
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Shoutout Atlanta Interview is now LIVE! (July 24, 2024)
Workshop at Anderson Ranch: Incorporating Personal Imagery into Painting (7/1–7/5/2024)
Guest Faculty Lecture at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (7/2/2024)
EcoCommunity Fair at Science Gallery Atlanta
Take my workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado!
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I'm so excited to return to Anderson Ranch, this time as an artist faculty! Below is some general information about the workshop I will be teaching, including links to register and to the workshop page on Anderson Ranch's website.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Incorporating Personal Imagery into Painting WHEN: Jul 1 - 5, 2024 9AM - 5PM Participants approach the process of integrating memorabilia and personal imagery into paintings as they deepen their practice. Students use found and personal photographs, manipulating them through analog media such as paint and collage. Pushing and pulling against the line between abstraction and representation, students find new access to generating images and content using a synthesis of many source materials. They create a small body of personal work throughout the week using acrylic, other water-based media, and collage on canvas and heavy-weight paper. Topics for discussion are conveying personal perspective, achieving multilayered surfaces, and creating visual space through shape, pattern, texture, and color relationships. |
* This class is open to students of any skill and knowledge level.
THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP IS FEBRUARY 12, 2024. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RANCH CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ON ANDERSON RANCH'S WEBSITE |
& yet again & again at Agnes Scott College's Dalton Gallery (2/9/24 - 4/8/24)
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Hambidge Center Residency (Fall 2023)
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Workshop: Embroidered Warming Cloths for Tortillas / Taller Para Aprender a Border Servilletas Para Tortillas
Nostalgic Varnishes / Barnices Nostalgicos (10/18/23-11/11/23) at the Hapeville Depot Museum
Nostalgic Varnishes is a visual memoir of works created by altering photographs from my personal and family archives. These pieces were produced using materials and techniques that reduce and deteriorate the photograph’s emulsion, as well as methods where embellishments were added to the surface. The altered photographs serve as a tangible landscape of changing memory, relationships, and identity.
The images altered for Repressed Memories were ritualistically burned, sanded, and painted over. These works explore the layers and decay of memory in a cathartic attempt to eradicate idealized memories and permit the painted photograph to serve as a new, abstracted, and revised reminder of the moment. I introduce collage, laser cutters, and solvents to photographs exchanged by my parents and grandparents. New subjects are also presented: my immediate and extended family members in Mexico, old family friends, and my younger self. Both new subjects and developed techniques collaborate to chronicle a familiar, and also idealized, story for many immigrant households: a tale of a family separated by time, distance, and cultural differences yet bound together by effort, love, and an unspoken duty to each other that transcends borders. 
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Barnices Nostálgicos es una biografía visual de obras creadas alterando fotografías de mis archivos personales y familiares. Estas piezas fueron producidas utilizando materiales y técnicas que reducen y deterioran la emulsión de la fotografia, así como métodos a los que se les agregaron adornos en la superficie. Las fotografías alteradas sirven como un paisaje tangible de la memoria, las relaciones, y la identidad cambiantes.
Las imágenes alteradas para Recuerdos Reprimidos fueron quemadas, lijadas, y pintadas de manera ritual. Estas obras exploran las capas y la decadencia de la memoria en un intento catártico de erradicar los recuerdos idealizados. Este proceso permite que la fotografía pintada sirva como un recordatorio nuevo, abstraído y revisado del momento. Introduzco encolado, cortadoras láser, y solventes en fotografias intercambiadas por mis padres y abuelos. También se presentan nuevos temas: mis familiares inmediatos y extendidos en México, viejos amigos de la familia, y mi “yo” más joven. Tanto los nuevos temas como las técnicas desarrolladas colaboran para narrar una historia familiar, y también idealizada, para muchos hogares de inmigrantes: la historia de una familia separada por el tiempo, la distancia y las diferencias culturales, pero unida por el esfuerzo, el amor y un deber implícito y mutuo que trasciende las fronteras. 
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Join us for a free art workshop at the Hapeville Depot Museum on September 23rd!
Acompañenos para un taller de arte gratis en el Museo Hapeville Depot el 23 de Septiembre!
Register here / registrese aqui : https://www.hapevilledepot.org/workshops
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Arrivals : an experimental art show in a liminal space (9/1-9/30/2023) at the Hapeville Depot Museum
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"Arrivals" is a show that teeters on the edge of experimental work provoked by the experience of liminality and liminal space. It’s the moment of missing your usual stop on the train and stepping into a place of transition: the platform of the unknown. This place feels so familiar, but it’s not quite your stop. Your daily pattern is broken, and you begin to see yourself as a new person in this unusual place and thus you are unusual too, an experiment. This ambiguous place lacks tradition and gives you a moment to explore before you board the train to your intended destination. Who do we become in a new place? Can we let go of the past and its visual language? How do we reconcile with the nature of an in-between state?
Featuring art by: Leslie Anne, Camisha Butler, Kate Burke, Yari Mena, Ali O’Leary, and Alexandra Ries |
Featured work :
"Repressed Memory : Eye" & "Repressed Memory : Triptych"
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SOLA Artist Market x The Bakery Atlanta at CreateATL
Come visit my tent at Sola Market! Saturday, August 26th from 12-5pm.
Illustrations for the Anderson Ranch Arts Center Annual Recognition Dinner and Community Picnic Events (Summer 2023)
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The Favorite Photograph You Took in 2022 by Lenscratch (Virtual Exhibition)
Click on the post's title link to see work by all participants in the virtual exhibition and see the piece below.
Illustration for ARAC Marketing (December 2022)
My illustration for Anderson Ranch has been used in postcards and flyers to promote the event! Examples below:
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Internship at Anderson Ranch Arts Center : Professional Development Award (Summer 2022)
"Summer interns at Anderson Ranch will receive a professional development award of $5,000 beginning with this year’s cohort." Learn more from the Snowmass Sun.
Magpie in the Morning (Aug 8-19, 2022) at Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Magpie in the Morning is an exhibition of artworks from the 2022 Anderson Ranch Summer Internship participants: Sophia Francesco, Dagny Chika, Yari Mena, Silma Berrada, Andrew Betancourt, Tara Bryan, Zeke Coleman, Mads Madore, Taylor Hedrick, Julia Hart, Justice Catron, Tessa Hoenig, Ava Hager, Cleo Lewis, Mary Margaret Sims, Angelo Tiu.
Mas Que An Expo (Mas Que A Month, It's Tu Heritage) (October 6, 2020 - October 7, 2021) on ArtSteps.com
"HBC + Supplier Diversity will be hosting a virtual, self-guided Latinx entrepreneur and art expo starting October 6th to showcase Latinx Artists, Creators, Inventors and Entrepreneurs across a number of categories.
Featuring a mix of local (MN-based) and non-local artists [Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles], along with current Target entrepreneurs and other emerging and national brands expanding across a number of categories and multiple art disciplines, team members will be able to walk themselves through a 360 virtual exhibition and explore content curated by various artists and vendors. The exhibition can be accessed anytime at your own pace."
Featured Artists: Alexander "Mamut" Izaguirre, Brian "Scorpio" Serrano, Cassie Navarro, Erick Parra, Ivan Vazquez, Raul Villanueva, Pati Hernandez, Jorge "Fitopliz" Martinez, ARRTADDICT, Jair, Rosalinda Ramirez, SOFAHOOD, and Yari J. Mena.
Featured Vendors: CE North America, Siete Family Foods, Honey Baby Naturals, SALSAOLOGY, Pinoleblue, Millennial Lotería, Iamaranth, COCINA 54, and Back to the Roots.
Click the title link to visit the virtual exhibition!
Curated by Target Creative Project Manager: Leo Rodriguez
Featuring a mix of local (MN-based) and non-local artists [Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles], along with current Target entrepreneurs and other emerging and national brands expanding across a number of categories and multiple art disciplines, team members will be able to walk themselves through a 360 virtual exhibition and explore content curated by various artists and vendors. The exhibition can be accessed anytime at your own pace."
Featured Artists: Alexander "Mamut" Izaguirre, Brian "Scorpio" Serrano, Cassie Navarro, Erick Parra, Ivan Vazquez, Raul Villanueva, Pati Hernandez, Jorge "Fitopliz" Martinez, ARRTADDICT, Jair, Rosalinda Ramirez, SOFAHOOD, and Yari J. Mena.
Featured Vendors: CE North America, Siete Family Foods, Honey Baby Naturals, SALSAOLOGY, Pinoleblue, Millennial Lotería, Iamaranth, COCINA 54, and Back to the Roots.
Click the title link to visit the virtual exhibition!
Curated by Target Creative Project Manager: Leo Rodriguez
VoyageATL Interview: Meet Yari Mena (May 8, 2019)
Spring BFA Exhibition (May 2-10, 2019) at Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries
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Participating artists: Kedamawit Atsbeha, McKenzie Blair-Griffith, Maria Bruckman, Hannah Burton, Emily Casazza, Troy Cobucci, Laura Daegling, Malcom Decosta, Christina Delgado, Olivia Dirickson, Trinh Do, Laura Dubose, Kyle Duncker Kastick, Tenita Edwards, Malique Faulks, Erika Gauvin, Katherine Greene, Amber Grier, Jordan Grubb, Heather Hendrix, Dakota Henry, Clay Jones, Shumirra Jones, Kory Jordan, Suk Young Lee, Andrew Lingrell, Taylor Manigoult, Nico Marulanda, Yari Mena, Madia Menlee, Natalia Montoya, Adisen Morten, Chanan Myers, Nicole Osborne, Saraa Santamaria, Yuvella Sinalin, Tony Smart, Jessica Vass, AlexisVitovic, Alexis Winfrey, Breontae Williams.
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Anthro-Obscene : Responding to the Anthropocene (April 22-29, 2019) at Gallery 650
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Anthro-Obscene is a group exhibition organized by Pam Longobardi featuring Clarissa Berrios, Sawyer Baggs, Alex Brooks, Rachel Buck, Avery Cousins, Amber Grier, Ian Herring, Matthew Jacoby, Clay Jones, Abby Knisel, Faith Lyons, Yari J. Mena, Adie Morton, Andrea Ours, Leslie Smith, Jami Tanksley, Mycah Turman, and Breonté Williams.
Featured work : "Luna Kisses the Earth Goodbye"
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21st Annual Juried Student Exhibition (April 18-26, 2019) at Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries
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Participating Artists: Farah Ali, Kedamawit Atsbeha, Elizabeth Avina, Clarisa Berrios, Sawyer Boggs, Tyler Brantley, Maria Bruckman, Rishi Burr, Hannah Burton, Robbie Callens, Valentina Caver, Alexis Childress, Jasmine Corbin, Soude Dadras, Autumn Fuller, Amin Ghasemi, Claire Gilbert, Amber Grier, Nia Hemmitt, Dakota Henry, Diane Hiscox, Christina Hollar, Millicent P. Hollins, Melissa Huang, Matthew Jacoby, Sarah Joerger, Clay Jones, Maya Jusufhodzic, Art Keegan, Amari Kinsey, Abby Knisel, Kylie Little, Jackson Markovic, Nico Marulanda, Fatou Mbodj, Yari Mena, Ana Meza, Nathaniel Mondragon, Adisen Morton, Kenya Nelson, Madeline Pieschel, Alejandro Prieto, Milana Reedus, James Robertson, Olga Sanders, Jess Self, Aminah Smarr, Tony Smart, Jamison Tanksley, Christina Teruel, Drew Tetz, Trieu (Richard) Thai, Parker Thornton, Robert Truesdale, Jessica Vass, Amanda Whitaker, Breontae Williams.
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Featured work : "Repressed Memory: Scorched"
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Convergence (Apr 11-13, 2019) at PULP Atlanta
Convergence is an interdisciplinary pop-up art exhibition at PULP Atlanta, curated by Sophia Sabsowitz. The show features 15 Georgia State University art students: Claire Berrios, Tyra Blackmon, Laura DuBose, Ian Herring, Alex Huey, Ben Hussinger, Matthew Jacoby, Abby Knisel, Nico Marulanda, Nysha McNeil, Yari Mena, Adie Morton, Alex Prieto, Madison Saxton, and Leslie Smith.
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Featured work : "Repressed Memory : Scorched Diptych" & "Repressed Memory: Cosmos"
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Spaces Within (Jan 11-Feb 28, 2018) at The Defoor Centre
Spaces Within is an exhibition organized by MINT Gallery at The Defoor Centre, featuring Fall 2017 MINTerns: Sabre Esler, Lindsey Tucker, and Yari Mena.
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