Biography and Statement

Mexican Immigrant artist from Jalisco based in the central coast and the Bay Area, Brian Anthony Lopez Romero, also know as yNoT has been honing his skill for screen printing and installation at the University of California Berkeley. As a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, yNoT blended his heritage and his love for family and their traditions into his art as a means to recreate a space in which the viewer could undergo a feeling of nostalgia. As a way to relieve a memory that once felt lost.

yNoT's evolution into installation work and silk screen work allowed him to introduce certain motifs and gestures that provoked a certain affections, gestures and acts of love. As his backstory shaped his ideas on approaching his practice it also shaped the way in which he depicted his works, although there was a lot of appreciation there is also a huge representation of sadness and pain in his practice, a pain that comes from moving from Jalisco to Salinas and transitioning into a whole new environment unknown to the artist. In addition his work has also maneuvered to have a more personal and emotional infatuated driven work that has a political side to it as well, from talking about the violence in Mexico, to the immigrations laws in the U.S, advocacy for human trafficking in Mexico among other topics but above all theres a appreciation of the culture and the traditional motifs. Created by the richness of the culture. Nonetheless, his works are nurtured to create a space that triggers memory and nostalgia as mean to remember traditions, the past, lost memories etc. These bodies of art aren’t just a direct embodiments of culture and heritage but of love and appreciation.