Más Caras

Crafting a series of vibrant masks using traditional Mexican folk art practices, 2019 Level Ground Residency Artist Evelyn Quijas Godínez examines one's connection to heritage and home. Más Caras—meaning "more faces" in Spanish, as well as "masks" when combined to the single word máscaras—consists of paintings, collages, masks, sculptures, and assemblages. These works combine colorful Mexican folk-art aesthetics with elements and imagery of Toltec, Aztec, Maya, and Olmec artifacts and juxtaposes them against a contemporary Los Angeles landscape. By creating multiple vignettes which often coexist within a single work, the artist emphasized an ever-present connectedness that transcends time and space.

Más Caras opened at Nous Tous Gallery in Chinatown on October 11, 2019 and featured a live music performance by special guest Luis Perez Ixoneztli.