Frankie Gutierrez is an illustrator, printmaker, and current MFA candidate working within the Inland Empire's print and self-publishing book art communities. Utilizing bright colors and silly faces, they endeavor to highlight the playful nature of gender fluidity, and non-mainstream trans identities.
As a framework, illustration functions like a tool for reflection and action, giving artists a revisionary process and a foundation for critical consciousness needed to make the visual language and narrative necessary for unpacking the intersections of identity.
