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Fall Arts Preview 2020: Can’t-Miss Fall Art Events
By Kerry Cardoza
September 7, 2020

6018North, “Windows to the World” installation in progress, with work by Rohan Ayinde, Jane Georges, Efrat Hakimi, Jiwon Ham, Mashaun Hendricks, Tshab Her, Audra Jacot, Angela Lopez, AJ McClenon, Dorian Sylvain, Sadie Woods.

Curators from the Justice Hotel at 6018North asked eleven artists to create street-viewable artworks to spark dialogue with the community about justice. AJ McClenon created T-shirts memorializing the death of the United States, Mashaun Hendricks hung banners on the fence which ask who benefits from the criminal justice system. In response to COVID-19, the exhibition will be progressively installed throughout the fall. 6018North invites the community to join the conversation by installing work on social justice in your own windows.

I am very thrilled and honored to be participating in a group show, Windows to the World, at 6018 North in Chicago. My video, Tie Them Up, can be seen at night in the left second floor window. To accompany the video I also made a zine that is available on the outside fence.

About the show:
In response to the collision of COVID-19, institutional racism, police brutality, and economic inequality, the Justice Hotel at 6018North has turned into an experimental platform to address justice with our neighbors and with you. Windows to the World is an outdoor, street-facing exhibition to advance collective solutions to systemic problems. We invite you, the public and organizations to use your own windows to build a collective dialogue about the change that is needed now.

Curated by a collective of Justice Hotel curators – Wisdom Baty, Ciera McKissick, Caroline K. Ng, Ji Yang, and Su Yeon Lim - Windows to the World features work in 6018North’s windows and exterior spaces by Rohan Ayinde, Jane Georges, Efrat Hakimi, Jiwon Ham, Mashaun Hendricks, Tshab Her, Audra Jacot, Angela Lopez, AJ McClenon, Dorian Sylvain, and Sadie Woods.
Read more here

Terrain Biennial
2019
A witchy woman, a hysterical woman, an unpleasant woman, a nasty woman.

This is my mother's house. The installation, magnifies the witchy-ness / other-ness of my mother's house. My mother's house sometimes looks like a witch's house. It is already “different” or visually unusual. Growing up in this house always felt and was different, there was nothing traditional about it. This house will be transformed into a body, and to the neighborhood “Witch house.” Covered in braided “hair” and dried plants the house comes to life and turns into a body. The hair highlights feminine strengths and vulnerability and points to perceptions of a woman’s place and roles.

Live Again
The Extension, Wedge Projects
1448 W. Howard St. Chicago, IL 60626

Jan 26 - Feb 22, 2019
Reception: Jan 26, 2019 6p -9p

I am enjoying the Doing/Thinking residency at Extension Projects, an arm of Wedge Projects. I've used the residency to experiment with small installations, and further build on some existing works. The concluding exhibition will include paintings, drawings, ceramic sculptures, and small installations. Ive really enjoyed my time in the space and wish it could continue on!
January 2019

SOFT SYNTH + BIGHT BOUND
Napoleon
319 N. 11th st Philiadelphia, Pa

Dec. 7 - 12, 2018
Opening Reception: First Friday, December 7th, 6 PM – 10PM

Works by Angela Lopez, Emma Oslé & José Santiago-Pérez
Curated by Heather Raquel Phillips

Exhibition Essay by Frank Sherlock, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2014-2015

I got asked to make a flag! It's up through December at Woman's Club at 7077 North Ashland Boulevard. Go visit it and pick up a zine in the box at the base of the pole. Its free! Inside you'll find a poem about a flag transformed into water.

Roman Susan Art Foundation in partnership with The Cuckoo’s Theater Project install artist-made flags at 7077 North Ashland Boulevard, the former location of the Rogers Park Woman’s Club. Exploring ideas around social work, community engagement, public welfare, literacy, migration, and gender, Woman's Club celebrates area residents, past and present.
Oct - Dec 2019

I am so happy to have been included in Moving_Image_00:03, guest curated by Jose Santiago Perez. Hosted by Lithium Gallery It was a fun screening with such diverse intersting works.

Here is a link to the preview.

Moving_Image_00:00, founded by Santina Amato, is a bi annual moving image festival that brings together Chicago artists from a wide variety of disciplines. The works range from polished short films to casual phone encounters using the moving image.

Artist include: ATOM-r and Julia Pello, Gabriela Saucedo, Dana Nechmad, Corey Smith, Crystal Beiersdorfer, Erika Råberg, Jan Brugger, Jeanne Donegan & Eileen Rae Walsh, JI YAng, Sherae Rimpsey, Angela Lopez, Yeng Madayag, Andrew Bearnot, Jacqueline Surdell, Meredith Leich, Considered To Be Allies
March 2018

Magic Like Death
Arts & Science Gallery, Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408

October 2 - November 3, 2017
Reception October 5, 2017, Noon - 2pm

I am so thrilled to announce Extended Practice. It is a collaborative project by myself and Sara Holwerda.

Extended Practice (EP) is an artist-led collaborative project to support and make visible the work and needs of artist mothers. EP celebrates and supports artist mothers by creating childcare-supported professional practice workshops, accessible exhibitions and community-building opportunities. This project elevates artist mothers, and provides a platform for them to assert themselves and their experiences as vital to art production and valuable to the art world. This project models a set of best practices in an effort to encourage artist parents and arts organizations to do more to address the practical and professional realities of parenting in the art world.

Visit our web-site to learn more

Front & Center
curated by Caroline Picard
Hyde Park Art Center
July 30, 2017 – October 1, 2017

Front & Center is the culminating show from Hyde Park Art Center's Professional Development offering, Center Program.

Participating artists include, Angela Dieffenbach, Manal Kara, Olivia Petrides, Mary Porterfield, Rambod Vala and many more! It has been awesome getting to know such a great group of artists.

Drawing
Randy Alexander Gallery
March 10 - April 8, 2017

1926 S. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60616

Works by: Diane Christiansen, Keeley Haftner, Erin Hayden, Shane Huffman, Jaclyn Jacunski, Clare Koury, Gary LaPointe, Brian T. Leahy, Angela Lopez, Gabriel Moreno, Ellen Nagel, Jeff Prokash, Kayla Risko, Elaine Rubenoff, Shoshanna Utchenik, Susan Wexler

Im excited to announce that I received a full scholarship to be a Center Program Artist at Hyde Park Art Center! The program provides professional practice opportunities, a working space, and encourages artist to experiment. It concludes in the fall 2017 with a group exhibition. Here is a list of the other participating artists. I'll keep you posted.

NewCity
Next Gen Talent
By Elizabeth Lalley

“The work of Angela Lopez, though less colorful than many of the works in its company, feels particularly mature. Moving through a variety of media, from video to fur to beeswax, Lopez captures undercurrents of internal, animalistic impulses, with skilled restraint that heightens a sense of visceral tension.”

Illinois Times Featured my show, Tie Them Up, at Demo Projects

Eschatoliotheca
Curated by Matt Martin
Bad at Sports top weekend pick!
Featuring work by Matt Ericson, Angela Lopez, Matt Martin, Jaclyn Mednicov, and Chris Wille

Chicago Gallery News
Ground Floor at Hyde Park Art Center
By Alison Reilly

"Lining the wall of the main hallway on the first floor of the Hyde Park Art Center are 50 watercolor paintings by Angela Lopez, which form a singular work titled Dip Hands In. The conceit is simple: in each composition Lopez freeze-frames a pair of hands as they immerse into an unknown black liquid. But the quality of the line and the texture of paint create a powerful portrait of severed hands as they transform under the pressure of repeated stains."

Angela Lopez, Dip Hands In, 2015, watercolor on paper

Hyde Park Art Center is pleased to present Representation vs. Exploitation: A Discussion of Human Form in conjunction with Ground Floor 2016. Led by Alisa Swindell, independent curator and UIC Art History PhD student, Ground Floor artists Jeanne Donegan (Columbia College), Angela Lopez (Northwestern), Meg Nafziger (UIC), Leonard Suryajaya (SAIC), Orkideh Torabi (SAIC), and Derrick Woods-Morrow (SAIC) will discuss the body's portrayal in contemporary art and more specifically, how the human form is depicted in their work.

I have really enjoyed being shown with so many exciting artists in the Ground Floor Exhibit at Hyde Park Art Center. Here is a link with images and more info.

It was also Chicago Tribune top 10 art show for the fall!

Instillation view of Cats Under The Skin at the University of Mary Washington's UMW Media Wall in Fredericksburg Virginia. Curated by Assistant Professor of Digital Art, Jason Robinson.

I was recently invited to join the EyeSplice Collective!

EyeSplice Collective formed in the spring of 2012, as a group of emerging female artists. Coming out of an MFA Studio Art Program that was mostly male, the founding members felt parched for the company of other female artists. The result is a rich and robust, driven and highly active group of artists. We live scattered throughout the United States. We put on exhibitions, screenings, performances and artist talks in institutions around the world.

I was very happy to be asked to speak on a panel at the Latino Art Now Conference in Chicago. Moderator, Allison Peters Quinn (Hyde Park Art Center) asked us to present two works and discuss how our work is influenced by our heritage.

Here is a link to what I presented

It was a great pleasure speaking with the other panelist, Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera, Nuria Montiel, Michelle Nonó

In the Rifts of Winter
Curated by Katya Balueva
Works by: Ali Ashman, Caroline Bellios, Kate Hampel, Angela Lopez, and Jaclyn Mednicov

Installation view of, Foot Moving In.

SAIC LeRoy Neiman Center, In the Rifts of Winter, Artist Panel Speaker, Chicago IL

As part of the programming for the exhibition, In the Rifts of Winter, curator Katya Balueva asked participating artists to speak on a panel on Beauty and Ugliness. We were asked to share related images, objects, or texts.

I choose two objects, The Venus (Clemente Susini, anatomical Venus), and Anna Morandi's mouth. Both works are formally beautiful, almost erotic, but still grotesque. They were made to look alive and pain free so that students wouldn't be distracted by the morbid relationship with mortality and illness. The life like quality of the works make them attractive,uncomfortable, and uncanny.

As part of the graduate thesis in Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University the graduating students are asked to make a publication. Our thesis catalog was designed by Marinus Schepen.

Here is a link to the written portion of my thesis

Installation view of my MFA Thesis Exhibit exhibit at the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL