Jynx Prado
Jynx Prado is a Los Angeles based artist who intertwines their Mexican-Salvadoran and queer identity with historical and mythological texts. Prado utilizes various mediums like found objects, traditional drawing tools, fibers (mainly burlap), and performances, all seasoned with a hint of absurdism. Prado references familiar iconography and pop-culture happenings in their artwork with vibrant and playful characters to display humor and irony in perfect unity. Prado works to critique, challenge, and question the various shifts and changes, internal and external, that occur culturally and in nature. As well as questioning the intersectionality of the two and practicing that narrative interdisciplinarily. Their works utilize highly saturated and vibrant colors that give the art a fantastical and almost psychedelic feeling. Their art manages to capture the visceral warmth of the sun, smell of the grass, and sensation of the clouds through masterful abstraction.
Oh Great, A Homosexual is composed of 16 burlap drawings and was originally presented in the Cerritos College Art Gallery’s Spring 2023 window installation, Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins: A Queery Tale. This series of 16 burlap drawings conveys Prado’s experience, as a queer and gender fluid individual, being gawked at and stared at in their everyday life. The drawings contain statements such as “Oh great, a homosexual…” and “HAHAHA! A beard and a dress?”, in reference to statements they have received in real life. It is a representation of being on the receiving end of prejudice and derogatory remarks, but by using their own eyes as a reference for the stares, a second layer is created where they are replicating the hateful sentiments onto themself. Below each individual drawing is shown.
Oh Great...A Homosexual...
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
You’ll Make My Kid Gay with Boy Makeup
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
What’s In Your Pants? Just Making Sure
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Ugh...
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
My Child is Just in a Phase
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
A Beard and a Dress
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
But Being Gay Isn’t Natural Under God
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
I Can’t Be with a Fluid, That Would Make Me Straight
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Avoid Eye Contact to Not Get Killed
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Freak
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
The FU--?!
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Don’t Spread Your Seeds
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Only a Man Can Be The Top
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
I’m Not Homophobic, But
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare II Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Pray it Away
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
Hey, Check That Out
2022
Acrylic, Oil Pastel, and Yarn on Burlap and Fabric
Stare I Series
10 x 10 in.
Gift of the Artist to the Dr. Robert Summers Queer Art Collection
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