Delta College Alumni Exhibition 2024
Yvonne Saldana
Yvonne Saldana is a Mexican-American Artist from Stockton, California. Her work consists of anthropomorphic beings depicted with the inspiration of Mesoamerica civilization and Japanese animation. She works with various mediums and is always trying to come up with new idea to make, whether it would be digitally or physically. She also gets inspiration from various artist online and from playing video games. She is currently going to various cities and selling her artwork at artisan markets and so forth, she aspires to venture out even further and to start selling at conventions.
The first work, The Mask I Wear, was actually a remake of a painting I did when I was working on my Bachelor’s Degree. The drawing was done in pen and then colored with marker. It is an Aztec person holding a wolf mask, almost covering their face. The second work, Frida Kahlo Skull was made out of cast powder, it was done more recently. It’s an inspiration of the Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, to celebrate Dia de los Muertos in her image but more skull-like. The third and finally work, Sufro, is a painting of a wolf with Dia de los Muertos-inspired face paint and it has the halo you would see in old Catholic artworks. The swirls coming out of the mouth of the wolf is almost imitation the talk swirl from Mesoamerican artworks.
The Mask I Wear
Pen and marker
17.5” x 14.5”
2017
$350
Frida Kahlo Skull
Plaster cast
7” x 5.5” x 1.5”
2022
$100
Sufro
Acrylic on canvas
20” x 16”
2019
$570