Wild Goose Creative is proud to present April’s 2025 Wild Gallery, Nebulous Origins, featuring Yahfa Guerra

Guerra’s work in Nebulous Origins is an homage to her ancestors, culture, and native land. All to deliver the message, we are still here. She finds herself estranged from her lineal homeland of the West Indies, in which the culture has a large focus on familial ties. This idea of ancestry involves more than just the past, it's also seen as a guide to your present and future. Her art depicts vortexes of color that allude to a sense of oblivion, merging reality with abstract patterns, and interesting texture. Yet in the forefront portraiture remains. By juxtaposing her culture of Haiti, Trinidad, and the black experience, she can provide a new perspective of ancestral honoring through a modern lens. These details become vital to her art process, where context informs all stories. She believes it's not enough to create art, you have to take the time to make it intentional. The stories of her predecessors are what she wishes to tell, but she lives in the aftermath of rewritten and forgotten history. To remedy this disconnection her art serves as a vessel to reimagine her people back into history and provide a stage in which their essence is memorialized.

Yahfa Guerra is a contemporary fine artist who depicts the realm of realism and surrealism as it relates to her self identity as a Caribbean woman. She is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, where she received her BFA at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited in the National African American museum, the Franklin Conservatory, the Northland Exposed Armory Show, the Elijah Pierce Gallery, the Columbus College of Art and Designs chroma show. Her work has been displayed in the offices of Mayor Andrew Ginther and the office of Congresswoman Joyce Beatty. Her awards include first in the Northland Exposed Juried show, first in the Columbus Chapter of the Links Art Exhibition and 3rd in the Congressional Art Competition, and the Outstanding Senior of Fine Arts at CCAD.