Canon in Drag: Female Artists Reimagine Famous Works by Men
ARTnews
2022
Just as Kass made Warholesque portraits celebrating Jewish divas and Thomas used iconic paintings to create space for Black women, California-based multimedia artist Linda Vallejo has pointed to the lack of representation of her Mexican-American heritage by turning everyone brown. In her ongoing series, “Make ’Em All Mexican,” Vallejo colorizes classical works from antiquity onwards.
KAREN CHERNICK
“When you begin looking at it, you begin to see that we are missing from this conversation,” Vallejo told the Los Angeles Times. “I’ve basically reappropriated culture, taken it back and I’ve made it brown, so everybody gets to be brown.’”
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