Blanka Amezkua took part since age five in embroidery circles in Mexico, an exclusively women's activity that allowed family members and neighbors to spend long hours in conversation.

Trained as a painter, she has for the past eight years made colorful pop-infused embroideries that interrogate the portrayal of women in Mexican adult comic books.

These illustrations are drawn onto cloth and stitched along with accompanying text of her devising. The result is a depiction of heroines who have been liberated from the stifling territory of pulp fiction into a world where a women's sexuality is fully eroticized on her own terms.  As pop art often revealed the most closely held stereotypes about romance and the vulnerability of women, so too Blanka's refashioned pop images question how power relations have kept a woman from finding her sexual identity based on the uniqueness of her own desires.

Sarah Stanley, KBP Gallery

Greñudita (Hairy one) Embroidery on fabric 36 x 36 in. 2005	Karnalitas(Sisters) Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 29 in. 2005	Bailando(Dancing) Embroidery on fabric and crochet 34 x 26 in. 2005	Rebel Rebel Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007	What In The World Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007
La Lutxona Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007	Wanda Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007	Zelina Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007	Kinetiko Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007	Iko Embroidery on fabric and crochet 30 x 31 in. 2007
Libertad Embroidery on fabric and crochet 32 x 27.5 in. 2008	Pau Embroidery on fabric and crochet 27 x 34 in. 2008	Dolores (Lola) Embroidery on fabric and crochet 32 x 24.5 in. 2008