Blanka Amezkua took part since age five in embroidery circles in Mexico, an exclusively women's activity that allowed family members and neighbors to spend long hours in conversation.
Trained as a painter, she has for the past eight years made colorful pop-infused embroideries that interrogate the portrayal of women in Mexican adult comic books.
These illustrations are drawn onto cloth and stitched along with accompanying text of her devising. The result is a depiction of heroines who have been liberated from the stifling territory of pulp fiction into a world where a women's sexuality is fully eroticized on her own terms.
As pop art often revealed the most closely held stereotypes about romance and the vulnerability of women, so too Blanka's refashioned pop images question how power relations have kept
a woman from finding her sexual identity based on the uniqueness of her own desires.
Sarah Stanley, KBP Gallery
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Greñudita (Hairy one)
Embroidery on fabric
36 x 36 in.
2005
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Karnalitas(Sisters)
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 29 in.
2005
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Bailando(Dancing)
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
34 x 26 in.
2005
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Rebel Rebel
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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What In The World
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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La Lutxona
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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Wanda
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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Zelina
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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Kinetiko
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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Iko
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
30 x 31 in.
2007
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Libertad
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
32 x 27.5 in.
2008
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Pau
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
27 x 34 in.
2008
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Dolores (Lola)
Embroidery on fabric and crochet
32 x 24.5 in.
2008
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It Makes No Difference Now
Embroidery on fabric, felt and cotton trim
22 x 33.5 in.
2008
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Car Hoppin' Mama
Embroidery on fabric, felt and cotton trim
19 x 31.5 in.
2008
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Ain't No Wheels On This Ship
Embroidery on fabric, felt and tassels
34 x 27 in.
2008
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