Yvette Rock is a visual artist currently focusing on creating mixed media works and photography on paper, canvas, and wood.  She is not locked-into one type of style; instead she fosters a dialogue between the concept and process.  She desires to make moving pieces layered with meaning; art that is ambitious, technical, and experimental; art that is bold, detailed, and unpredictable. She explores topics such as human conception (from a biological, aesthetic, and spiritual perspective); motherhood (often reflecting on her own journey as a mother of five children); identity and racism (wrestling with personal and societal ideas about self, blackness, and multiculturalism); and the collision of worlds (exploring the relationship between life and death, light and shadows, materialism and the ephemeral). She often employs the power of the figurative form (whether representational or abstract) to reclaim a vision of people whose bodies or histories are neither accounted for, nor treated with care and attention. She is also inspired by the power and beauty of nature to convey these ideas through colors, textures, contrast, and found objects. The use of symbols and images such as circles, dolls, birds, leaves, the colors red and gold, are often a part of her visual language. 

The reception will take place on August 12th from 6pm-10pm.