Acerca Yolanda Hernández
Yolanda expresses her creativity in the arts from the comfort of her home in Red Lodge, Montana. She uses materials such as wire, found objects, flowers, and traditional materials such as canvas, oil paint, pens, and paper. Her newer work includes digital art media.
The basic theme of her art focuses on the power of sexual freedom and working towards healing intergenerational traumas. Yolanda has created a 3D wire sculpture with tomato cage wire that embodies the laborious time women spend working and the inequalities of the gender pay gap. Another wire work entails miniature coat hangers replicating We Love Dry Cleaners laundry hangers with messages and labels representing societal pressures and structures contributing to poverty, financial hardships, abusive relationships, and gender pay gaps. "Not much progress has been made for women's human rights. Labels on the miniature coat hangers include "We love Sexism, We love Patriarchy, We love Male Chauvinism, We love Opression, We love Discrimination, and We love Unplanned Pregnancies." The metal clothing hanger symbolizes the object women used for back alley abortions years before Roe vs. Wade and the disproportionate access to abortions, especially for women of color. Being a woman is my experience."
Yolanda has sold handcrafted artwork and products online via Etsy.com, Facebook Marketplace, Shopify, and Redbubble. She has worked with contracted private clients and has sold artwork on Melrose Blvd. Yolanda has taught an online art course in Spanish to over 25 families in the Child Care Resource Centers Head Start program. Her favorite work is inspired by Frida Kahlo, the flower crown icon and leader in the breakdown of gender roles in society. Yolanda has created flower crowns for weddings, bachelorette parties, bridal showers, baby showers, maternity photoshoots, birthday photoshoots, and festivals.