Yellow Gray grew up obsessed with international cultures, paintings, animals, plants and decor. She spent many of her formative school years slipping away from class to spend many hours in the library reading about and memmorizing pictures of such things.
In her home life, all the relationships were broken and she didnt trust anyone. So, to make herself feel safe she would change the funiture, wall decor and plants to mimic interiors of homes from different cultures and listen to traditional music on LP's from around the world. Her passions are people, animals, plants, painting, ceramics, music, and textiles.
Although she has traveled for many years around the United States, she has only traveled out of the country once. She traveled solo to study the iconography inside the back-strap loom weaving of the Ke'che Maya in Cehcum, Guatemala. While there, she taught painting classes to the community at night.
She still dreams of going to all of these foreign places and painting what she discovers. Until then, she has the internet, cinema, public spaces and still, the library.
Yellow Gray’s Art Timeline
1987 - The Mattress Factory Art Exposition ( inside the Cabbagetown Mill). Installation: “The Power Of Mask Media”. Atlanta, G.A.
1993 - Art of the Century Show at The Rebecca Shipley Gallery. “Exquisite Corpse” - A Collaboration of 20 Artists. Atlanta, G.A.
1996 - First published photograph in the “Best of Atlanta” Creative Loafing. Title: “Glorious Foot Solider” From the Gay and
Lesbian Festival, 1996.
1989-2003 - Created images for local bands in Atlanta, G.A.. Included: posters, flyers, album covers, invitation cards and
random merchandise.
2004-2008 - Attended Harry S. Truman College, DePaul Unv. and Northeastern Illinois Unv. in Chicago, I.L.
Disciplines In: Sociocultural Anthropology, SocioLinguistics, African History, TESL, Ceramics and Art History.
2008 - Studied culture and iconography inside the back-strap-loom weaving in Checam, Guatemala and conducted painting
classes for the community at night.
2020 - YeloMonki Works was formally established to sell paintings to the public.
2022 - Two of YeloMonki Works paintings were added to the Permanent collection of the Presques Isle’s Reed Art Gallery
at The University of Main. Titles: “A Conversation” and “ Tend To My Garden Now…Old White Man”.
2023 - CSIRI.org (Computer Social Impact Research Institute) awarded YeloMonki Works as their featured Artist for the months of
January and February.
2024 - Featured four paintings in the Opening Show of The East Hive Community Gallery. Tucson, A.Z.
2025 - Volunteer Painting and Sculpture Teacher at The Armory Park Senior Center. Tucson, A.Z.
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