Virtual Artist Talk: Yvette Mayorga and Meredith Martin

Artist Yvette Mayorga speaks with art historian Dr. Meredith Martin covering Mayorga's maximalist aesthetic and its relationship to a neo-Rococo impulse in contemporary art. They delve into Mayorga's uniquely personal, witty use of historical sources and her interest in making the past relevant and meaningful for the present.
Yvette Mayorga: Dreaming of You is organized by Caitlin Monachino, Curatorial and Publications Manager, and was on view from September 14, 2023 through March 17, 2024. This conversation was held on Thursday, February 29th, 2024.
Yvette Mayorga was born in 1991 in Moline, Illinois, and lives and works in Chicago. She holds a BFA from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at the Vincent Price Art Museum, DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Center for Craft, the Museo Universitario del Chopo, The Momentary, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and LACMA's Pacific Standard Time:LA/LA. In 2020-21, her work was included in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21 and acquired by El Museo del Barrio as part of the inaugural survey of contemporary Latinx art. She has been featured in Artforum, Artnet, Art in America, Art News, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, Teen Vogue, The Guardian, and The New York Times. Her works are in the permanent collections of the DePaul Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Meredith Martin is professor of art history at New York University and a founding editor of Journal18. A specialist in early modern French art and architecture, she is the co-author (with Gillian Weiss) of the award-winning book The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Gallery Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (Getty, 2022). She is also the author of Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard, 2011), and a co-author of Meltdown: Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy (Harvey Miller, 2020), which accompanies an exhibition she co-curated for The New York Public Library. Together with the choreographer Phil Chan, Martin reimagined and restaged a lost French ballet from 1739 known as the Ballet des Porcelaines, which toured the U.S. and Europe last year.