About

Jaclyn is a Native American- Mexican American artist, curator and gallery manager.  Jaclyn has curated exhibitions at the art gallery based in the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is currently is the gallery manager at The Local Gallery NYC based in Long Island City. 
As an artist she experiments with mulit-media in relation to cultural identity, mental health, politics and the human body. Some of her most recent works are mulit-media weavings, as she likes to call them multi-media quilts. They explore her ancestry by using symbols and language from Latin America. She uses wire, fabrics, yarn, beads, paint, artificial flowers and repurposed pochos. She creates soft sculpture flowers that are symbols of the beauty of Latin America countries.
Jaclyn finds creating artwork a spiritual experience, one of self discovery. Being that she is adopted art has become an important way for her to connect to and explore her Native-American, Indigenous and Mexican Ancestry and Culture. Most of her work uses bright vibrant color palettes similar to what we see in the art of Mexico. She is heavily influenced by iconographic imagery seen in Mexican, Native American and Meso-American art. She derives inspiration and creates her own imagery based on mosaic tiles of Mexico, Mexican textiles, skulls, Native American Gods, Meso-American Gods and ancient stories.
As an artist she finds it to be her job to make art not just to express herself and explore her own identity but to give a voice and representation to a historically underrepresented, underestimated nation and population. She finds her art as a way to honor her birth mother as well as a homage to her Mexican, Indigenous, Native-American, and Latin roots.