ISSUE #03 : new rules

Yvette Mayorga Venus Effect After Dad Crossed, After Diego Velázquez, “Rokeby Venus” 2017

Meet four artists whose practices are disrupting the art world, presenting us with perspectives that challenge wider cultural and societal issues.

Yvette Mayorga

Yvette Mayorga is a first-generation Mexican-American artist whose multimedia practice confronts issues of race, identity, and gender. From archetypal iconographies like the CandyLand board game and confectioners icing to industrial parts and wallpaper, Yvette uses these dialectical materials as a conceptual framework to address the Latinx experience. Referencing these domestic decorations and interior ornamentation her installations are informed by border politics and its transnational narratives.

Rowdy SS

Rowdy SS is a London born and based multi-disciplinary whose performative practice spans music, dance, and installation. Innovative intersections are at the core of his practice in both production and concept - converging audio, movement, performance, and video; while exploring love, black identity, and the masculine/feminine. Rowdy SS also investigates spatial politics - ‘things’ that exist (or not) in specific spaces and how we, using technology and our bodies, communicate within defined spaces.

Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates is one of the world’s most influential living artists. His actions and body of work encompass a social practice involving people, communities, and activism. Theaster’s public projects instigate the creation of cultural communities by acting as catalysts for social change. As an African-American artist, all aspects of his practice engage the notion of Black space. His exhibitions, such as Amalgam, utilise video, sculpture, and installation to explore complex issues of race, agency, and society.

Creative Growth

Founded in California in 1974, Creative Growth is a leader in the field of arts and disabilities, establishing a model for a creative community guided by the principle that art is fundamental to human expression. Pushing neurodiversity into the contemporary art world and the larger cultural mainstream, Creative Growth artists have been included in the Venice Biennale, had solo-presentations at the Frieze Art Fair, as well as countless brand collaborations and significant museum acquisitions.