
Jackelin Solorio is a Bay Area Latinx artist, her artwork is interdisciplinary. Jackelin creates sculptures often incorporating her performance arts with her sculptural works creating a narrative. Solorio’s art is conceptually driven. Her inspirations derive from her feelings. She attempts to communicate her experiences with her work. Solorio’s art tackles feminist topics. She desires to create a sense of sisterhood and community. While creating a safe space for expressing insecurities that might arise from people who identify as women. Solorio’s art creates extensive possibilities and conversation surrounding feminist perspectives. Her work is multidisciplinary including ceramics, performance, installation, photography, and painting. Solorio finds that pushing her body and her creations' to extremes is a process she has an affinity for. Solorio often leaves gestural traces on her artworks. She has identified her aesthetics as Mexican, connecting to archival myths and traits that connect her work with the past. Solorio grew up in a religious family in her early childhood, this has left her grappling with personal issues, religion, women's bodies, and cultural patriarchal concerns are recurring topics in her art. Solorio grew up with an independent, hard-working mother in a single-parent household which has shaped her feminist ideals. Solorio's work also tackles ideas of strength, fragility, self-esteem, and sexuality. Solorio wants people to find commonalities creating a sense of self-discovery when encountering her work. Solorio pushes herself to create while exploring her evolutionary journey. Her work captures her development as it is happening.