ANGELICA GOMEZ MAYORGA

Angelica Gomez-Mayorga is a native Texan from Uvalde,Tx . At nearly the age of eight she moved with her mother to San Antonio where she has resided since. Both sides of her family were enriched with the arts, culture, and history. They became either artists or educators. Her parents, coming from Uvalde and Guadalajara, are both painters . Her grandparents played a good part in raising her in common old Mexican and Catholic customs. Angelica is an established artist who incorporates and celebrates the strength and beauty of women and old Mexican traditions taught by her grandmother.

Para Mi Familia

As the audience encircles the painted illustration of “My 90 Westside Story “ they will find on the right side of the skull that it begins with homage to the loss of two riverboat captains I worked alongside for twenty years. Progressing to the back of the skull I pay great homage to my grandparents. The old Mexican and Catholic customs of respecting the deceased by wearing black veils. They appear as monarchs with their two deceased infants, portrayed as caterpillars, on the left side jaw. The rusted bridge on the left side of the skull illustrates a monarch emerging from the water to symbolize the loss of a great uncle in a drowning accident in Knippa, Tx. There are 21 monarchs flying above the bridge and landing at the tree where the green shoes lie underneath to symbolize the homecoming of the victims of the recent tragedy in Uvalde.