Watercolor Painting on YUPO®

Since 2008, New York-based artist Firelei Báez has experimented with pouring paint on Yupo paper, which has a synthetic, nonabsorbent surface. Acrylic paint, gouache and ink mix and pool together, creating fluid and unfixed forms that are the basis for the artist’s figures—often self-portraits, like the image you see here.Some of Báez’s Yupo works form figures with piercing eyes, whose gaze follows us as we move. Báez describes her pouring process: “There’s the tilt of the floor, the humidity le