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Saturday, 20 March 2010

Sofia Maldonado

Sofia Maldonado , is a woman who has a lot of people talking about her murals in N.Y. This morning when I went to a certain "african-american" site, they had a post entitled"
: http://bossip.com/227726/does-this-offend-you-mural-in-nyc-getting-a-lot-of-heat-for-portraying-black-and-latina-women-in-a-negative-light/#more-227726 and me being me , I obviously had to read the post , comments and all...First of all I love the fact that her work has people talking . As to what I think of her work , it reminds me alot of what Fafi does but unlike Fafi its gritty, Fafi's work has alot of attitude but its become too cutesy for my liking.Not that I mind cute since living in Japan has made me accept all that is cute. I googled Maldonado and found this gem of a video via http://vimeo.com. What really got me laughing though was some dude I think around 0:33 mark , he says something along the lines of "this is nasty , this is not right, we don't treat females like this..." Wow , really dude in which planet don't they treat women like that , but anyways I'm looking forward to what Maldonado is going to come up with next

"42nd Street Mural" - NY reactions from Mykwain Gainey on Vimeo.



I really do hope she doesn't become one of those artists we hear about and then forget later. It seems like such a common occurance especially with female artists and especially those in a male dominated medium such as graffiti.