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Carmel artist Kay Villalobos works in collaboration with various personal assistants to create unique, visionary works of art. Kay envisions and directs, while her assistants understand and execute.
Kay began this collaborative phase of her artistic life after an automobile accident in 1997 resulted in paralysis that extends from her shoulders to her toes. Her first works were one-dimensional collages created from representations of religious iconic art, which were exhibited at the Day of the Dead exhibit at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas in October 2001.
For the 2002 Day of the Dead Steinbeck Center exhibit Kay moved to a two-dimensional piece by creating a large altar that represented a traditional alter seen in Mexican homes. In 2003, her concepts evolved into decorating a chair with a whimsical and religious motif. The chair is crucial to Kay’s imagery as she lives her life in her wheelchair. She views the chair she decorated as central to family life in a Mexican home: a comfortable seating place to have meals, conversation, and prayer. Kay continued to develop the chair motif and her 2004 creation, which included hundreds of glass beads depicting the faces of saints, was including in the Day of the Dead exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. She exhibited her work in the Mi Casa, Tu Casa Exhibit at the Pajaro Valley Art Gallery in Watsonville in 2005. In 2006, Kay had a one-woman show at the Hanson Gallery in Carmel. Included were collages, torso mannequins, altar chairs, and her newest creation, stylized mannequin hands, which are painted and collaged in amazing designs and colors.
These torsos and hands represent Kay’s expanded vision of applying collage art to striking representations of femininity, fertility and motherhood. They are a celebration of the female for. Kay’s concepts spring from her unique sense of humor and her deep conviction that out of sorrow and misfortune art can be made, and when the creative spirit exists, the artist will find new and ever-evolving ways to express it. |
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