Joy Reyes Portfolio
“Teen Mom” (2023). Mixed media, fiber lace, and jewels on canvas. 36 x 48. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
Memories become larger than life in Joy Reyes’s mixed-media collection, embodying familial strength and love passed down through generations. In a vivid display of color and texture, the Dallas-based artist marries iconic imagery from her Mexican heritage with evocative graphic designs. In her stoic portraits, newlyweds blush into bloom, deities endure tears, and luchadores look to the future. Several pieces come from her series In the Garden Where I Grow (2023), where Reyes honors her elders by rooting herself in her culture. Both tangible and representative, fabric is a brilliant narrative element that ties the physical world to the spiritual, the past to the present. Reyes centers community members in her work, often sourcing subjects from collaborative projects to document their shared history and increase the visibility of global cultures. Reyes’s command of multidisciplinary arts enhances her unique voice as a multicultural artist.
“In the Garden” (2022). Acrylic and oil pastels on canvas. 48 x 60. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
“La Union” (2022). Mixed media and fiber lace on canvas. 48 x 60. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
“Pajaros Del Amor” (2022). Mixed media, sequins, glitter, and acrylic on canvas. 36 x 48. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
“Azula” (2022). Acrylic on unstretched canvas. 13 x 17. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
“Luchador Legends” (2021). Mixed media paper, spray paint, and acrylic on canvas. 48 x 60. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
“Rooted” (2022) Acrylic on canvas. 36 x 48. Copyright Joy Reyes, 2024.
Joy Reyes
Artist
Joy Reyes (https://www.studiojoyr.com/) is a Latina-Jewish multidisciplinary artist based in Dallas. Reyes primarily creates mixed-media paintings but also works in glass, sculpture, and carpentry. Her heritage inspires her culturally diverse artwork and community projects. She has exhibited her work in galleries across Texas, including Daisha Board Gallery, the first Black-owned, women-owned gallery in Dallas.
Yazlin Juarez
PubLab Fellow 2024
Yazlin Juarez is a lifelong student of the arts seeking to enter the world of publishing, and wherever it may lead her. Since youth, Yazlin has taken every opportunity to forge spoken word poetry, photography, and design into an instrument of social justice and cultural pride. She was awarded the 1st Place Prize in the 38th Congressional District Art Competition, earning the honor of displaying her photograph in the Cannon Tunnel in Washington D.C. Yazlin discovered her love of theater through the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz, where she developed empowering student productions as the Poet’s Corner director. She is published in the Red Wheelbarrow Anthology and TWANAS Press and continues to capture her history from a queer Chicana lens. Yazlin now proudly serves as a Los Angeles Theater Center marketing associate, developing media and partnerships for the Latino Theater Company. Find her on Instagram here.