George Yepes: La Uvalde Dolorosa

GEORGE YEPES

​La Uvalde Dolorosa

​Virgen de Guadalupe Altar

See “La Uvalde Dolorosa” and other art by George Yepes on the artist's website.

​Tikkun Olam: To Repair the World

“Like Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto (1518 - 1594, Venice, Italy), George Yepes
has the ability to pull down from heaven the designs which God has for
humans and paint them so people can discover through the paintings
what they are deaf to in words.”

​Dr. David Carrasco, Professor - Historian of Religions, Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures; Director, Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, and Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Divinity School - Harvard University

La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe altar in honor of the 21 victims of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting.

La Uvalde Dolorosa bears the pain of 21 bleeding wounds for the 21 victims: Her Sacred Heart skewered with 7 daggers and 14 large swords piercing her chest and abdomen.

The Uvalde pieta banner is draped across her lap.

La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe wears the crown of thorns from the crucifixion.
 
Behind La Dolorosa is her flaming aura of La Virgen de Guadalupe.

La Dolorosa's green cloak of La Virgen de Guadalupe has turned to ultramarine blue with white stars.

Her white gown is marked by the bleeding flow from her Sacred Heart and abdomen to form the red and white stripes of the United States flag.

Above and behind La Dolorosa is the cross of the crucifixion carved into the Uvalde oak tree from the City Seal of Uvalde, Texas.

The 21 Doves above La Dolorosa/Virgen de Guadalupe are the ascending souls of the Uvalde victims.   
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With the permission of the artist

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George Yepes, born in a cross-fire hurricane beneath a meteor shower over Baja, then raised and educated in the crucibles of East Los Angeles, the meteoric double-barrel life of Painter/Muralist, continues to burn beyond the Los Angeles art world. Formed by a hard street life of poverty, and gang violence; this painter not only survived the gang violence of East L.A.’s toughest neighborhoods but he has also risen above and beyond the Chicano genre. Yepes' oeuvre incorporates art and architecture, ethereally beautiful women, world history, religion and literature presented in powerfully charged atmospheres. Self-taught, with a refined renaissance bent; from religious iconography to erotica, George Yepes brings a confidence and knowledge of his craft that calls to mind the great Velasquez and Titian, and the great Mexican Muralists. Imbued with a contemporary street sense, his paintings and murals combine the best of both worlds where bravado meets classical standards. 
More on the artist at: http://www.georgeyepes.com/

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