Photo by Mike Szpot, Seaport Entertainment Group
Photos by Katie Godowski
Vexta, The Seaport, NYC 2024
Artist Bio: Yvette Vexta is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia now based in New York, USA. She is recognized as one of the leading female artists in the street and contemporary urban art scene as one of the first women street artists in what was once a very male-dominated field. Vexta’s artwork seeks to investigate and meditate on our connection to the natural world, drawing on studies in mythology, cosmology, quantum science, consciousness, and life/death dualities. She paints these images as seen through her unique psychedelic lens, whilst keeping her feet firmly rooted in a deep ecological feminine perspective. Coming from a social activism background based on a love of deep ecology she has always paid homage to her activist roots that formed her career. In recent years her practice has expanded from murals and paintings to include sculpture, soundscapes, augmented reality, digital art and immersive events. She also collaborates with a diverse range of clients such as Converse, Lollapalooza & Governors Ball Music Festival, Fabergé, Urban Decay, Sportsgirl, Juxtapoz Magazine & Samsung.
Photo by David Dini
Artist Statement: I navigate the themes of my art through the reinterpretation of the common narrative threads that bind our experience of being human. Exploring the personal within universal mythopoetic archetypes, my artworks often enmesh figurative forms amid her symbolic, geometric shapes (representative of the subatomic particles that make up all matter) with floral, fungi, and coral patterns on the macro and micro. Through my practice, I seek to provide an insight into our fundamental engagement with the modern human condition as connected/disconnected to the natural world, and thus our inner selves. For my work with YANAM I created a Rising Orb which is part of a body of work of mine reflecting on the cosmos and planets and the expression of hope offered in the new dawn of a sunrise. The text “You are not alone” appears as tiny stars in constellations, reminding views although you might feel small we are all connected and part of something much greater than ourselves.