Bio
Mexican Immigrant artist from Jalisco based in the central coast and the Bay Area, Brian Anthony Lopez Romero, also known as yNoT, has been honing his skills at the University of California, Berkeley. As a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, yNoT blended his heritage and his love for family and their traditions into his art as a means to utilize familiar narratives and recollections of memories.
yNoT's evolution into an interdisciplinary practice allowed him to introduce certain motifs and gestures that triggered a certain memory. As his backstory shaped his ideas on approaching his practice, it also shaped how he depicted his works, although there was a lot of appreciation, there is also a huge representation of sadness and pain in his practice, a pain that comes from moving from Jalisco to Salinas and transitioning into a whole new environment, unknown to the artist. In addition, his work has also maneuvered to have a more personal and emotionally infatuated-driven work that has a political side to it as well, from talking about the violence in Mexico to the immigration laws in the U.S, advocacy for human trafficking in Mexico among other topics but above all there's an appreciation of the culture and the traditional motifs. Created by the richness of the culture. Nonetheless, his works are nurtured to create a space that triggers memory and nostalgia as a means to remember traditions, the past, lost memories, etc. These bodies of art aren’t just direct embodiments of culture and heritage but of love and appreciation.
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