Byoode Art

07/30/2023

PAINT & SIP SANGRIA! The perfect day to bring out your artistic side. A change of scenery is always a good idea to get a burst of creativity! Enjoy painting while Sipping Sangria in the park, our tented space and artist instructor will inspire you to create a masterpiece to take home.

SATURDAY “SKYLINE” 5pm Session

03/30/2023

Join us and on Sunday April 2 from 4-6 for a FREE Spring Time Workshop ‘Paint Forever Flowers with Lorimar Matos’ the Culture Corner 💐☀️

Then stick around and join us all week long from April 1-April 8 for family friendly workshops! 🌷

Spring Break is here! And we are so excited to be back at Navy Pier to celebrate all things Spring! 🌸

Follow us for more details to come on the amazing Chicago artist and creatives we have joining us for this Chicago Spring Time Fun! 🌻

03/15/2023

11/10/2022

08/30/2022

⭐️September show announcement!⭐️

We are stoked to host Multidisciplinary Artist〽🖌] at Gallery 1 for the month of September! Lorimar Matos is a full-time stay at home mom and artist based in Oak Park, IL.

Her art is centered around the use of bright colors, bold lines, the human figure, and Puerto Rican folk arts as vehicles to explore the impact of growing up as a first-generation Puerto Rican American.

Join us Thursday, September 8th from 6-8 PM to celebrate and check out Multidisciplinary Artist〽🖌]’s exhibit! We can’t wait to host her work at our cafe in Wicker Park! ✨

02/08/2022

Profunda 30x24 Acrylic on canvas.

Profunda is actually a self portrait in where to explore my feelings of self worth and how that ties into my Puerto Rican American experience. Growing up I was met with a lot of violence. Most was verbal but some was physical and this violence almost made me take my own life. See when I was growing up I had an abusive step father that made me feel low about being not only existing but existing as a Puerto Rican. He would constantly berate me for many things but always liked to bring up that my ethnicity was low grade and that Puerto Ricans were losers and ghetto and that he wished he never met my mother and made muts with her. This and growing up in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood in which the kids always made jokes that Mexicans were better than Puerto Rican’s made me really despise my ethnicity. I had so many negative feelings about myself and felt like I had to prove that I was better than other Puerto Rican’s. That I wasn’t the stereotypes and that we weren’t all the same. I used to run away from my culture. It wasn’t until I met my biological father and visited him in PR that I realized how beautiful being Puerto Rican was. It has taken any years to undo the damage and neglect but now I truly fully embrace my culture and want to fight to keep all those things people consider negative about Puerto Rican’s alive and show them the beauty of our culture.

02/01/2022

Thank you to for taking such amazing quality photos of my Vejigante Selfies!

Prints of this collection are available ok n my site byoodeart.com, link is also in my bio!

01/18/2022

Fructífera- 30x40 Acrylic on canvas.

Second in my AmeRICAN Portraits series, this painting is about motherhood in the US and how immigrant parents put all their hopes and dreams into their children. Growing up in the US as a first gen. I felt immense pressure to be the one to carry the family out of poverty and out the hood, but then I messed up and got pregnant at 16. That pressure turned into massive disappointment from my family and I was not longer seen as our golden ticket, just more baggage. My family still loved and supported me just no longer invested in me. That investment was transferred to my child. Now she’s 16 and I’ve come to realize that maybe I also put way to much pressure on her and that she’s her own person and does not owe any debt to our family legacy. That these hope and dreams our immigrant families have are great but what comes first is to be a loving, nurturing and understanding parent that the US can be a great place for growth it can successful bear fruit but not if we don’t nurture it.

01/15/2022

Bienvenida- 30x24 Acrylic on Canvas.

After completing my Vejigante Selfie series I knew I wasn’t done with using Vejigantes as vehicles to express my feelings. So this next series is called “AmeRICAN Portraits”.

And starting off the collection is “Bienvenida”
Based on a Photo of one of my Daughters. I made a ton of mistakes with this piece but I learned aooo much! About shade and light and really had to get into color theory. Tell me what you think? Did I do my baby justice?

01/09/2022

Vejiga te Selfies Are officially available on OpenSea! Check the link in my Bio!

I want to give a BIG Thank you to for helping me put this together!