Virgin of Guadalupe Series Postcard Set of 9 | Yolanda López Portrait of the Artist Exhibition

"I feel like living, breathing women also deserve the respect and love lavished on Guadalupe...It is a call to look at women, hardworking, enduring and mundane, as the heroines of our daily lives." - Yolanda López For Yolanda López, the Virgin of Guadalupe was a complex and generative symbol.  As the most visible image of womanhood in Mexican and Mexican American culture, López visually deconstruct and reconstructs Our Lady of Guadalupe by inserting a range of pre-Columbian goddesses to contemporary working-class women into the Virgin's accustomed place.   Virgin of Guadalupe Postcard Set features 9 artwork images from San José Museum of Art's 'Yolanda López Portrait of the Artist Exhibition': Eclipse, from the "Guadalupe" series, 1981 mixed media collage Nuestra Madre, from the "Guadalupe series, 1981-1988 acrylic and oil on masonite Untitled, study for the "Guadalupe" series, 1978 collage and paint on paper Untitled, study for the "Guadalupe" series, 1978 mixed media Untit