Ginger Q, Cabroncita, Video Stills 
Ginger Q‘s Cabroncita is currently on view in Vernacular Glamour.
Vernacular Glamour (January 6-February 5, 2022) brings together a cross-section of eight contemporary Latinx artists working with the visual vocabularies of camp, popular culture, high fashion, and baroque painting and architecture through vernacular idioms. Engaging the materials and forms of ball culture, advertising media, spiritual practices, and street art, the eight artists in Vernacular Glamour mobilize the artifice and exuberance of glamour to address the complexities of everyday life.
Learn more about Vernacular Glamour here.
“Cabroncita” recontextualizes a classic 1997 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck by creating a mobile sculpture that challenges established social gender boundaries. The motivation behind this piece was to dismantle misogyny by putting womxn behind the driver’s seat and giving them control to pave the way. By incorporating womxn into the equation, we can begin to analyze these archetypal iconographies we digest as “standard” and in turn, disrupt the status quo.
Ginger Q | Vernacular Glamour Exhibiting Artist
The status quo bends to make way for new dimensions in the practice of Latinx artist Ginger Q, born in Guadalajara and raised in Los Angeles. Having trained in the workshops of her neon mentors while obtaining a BFA at CalArts, she unites technical craft with a conceptual approach across an inventory of mediums.
Manifesting through sculpture, large-scale installation, & digital mediums, Ginger Q’s immersive work lures the viewer in with their charged interplay of light, color, and form. Disentangled from their industrial origins, heavy-duty materials – acrylic, metal, neon – chart different courses, carrying an energy that veers between fragility and danger. Elements that at first appear resolute bend, melt and morph once subjected to heat, revealing their pliability.
In its transformative arc, Ginger Q’s creative process is equally one of deconstruction. Collaborative and divergent from linearity, her practice dismantles norms and calls common codes into question. In their place, power dynamics recalibrate and unconventional narratives begin to take form.
See more from Ginger Q
Website: Ginger-q.com
Instagram: @ginger_q_