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#FridayFeature | Nicola Lopez - “Architectural structures become stand-ins for the body on an individual level. People often ask, "Where are the people?" It's a great question. We are in there, implied through builders and architects of this world and in there in conversation about natural cycles of decay, growth, and experience. A metaphor for the body in architecture: we recreate ourselves all the time. Through the things that we build, we visualize ourselves in so many ways and our relationship to our world. Skeletal structure-we talk about it as a skeleton and skinning. It is a skin-these prints-and it is a membrane, a protective coating in so many ways. A self-contained structure much like a human being." - Jamie Desimone, Nicola Lopez Explores the 'Life Cycle' of Buildings, MOCA, November 17, 2016 - Nicola Lopez, Phase Change 2, 2008, monotype; linocut, collograph plate and collage, 27 3/4 x 24 inches, signed - #nicolalopez #lopez #print #urban #architecture #monotype #linocut #collograph #collage (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3xTCQVFHh9/?igshid=ba2cp8i6zz2h

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#FridayFeature | Nicola López ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ López's handling of her chosen media is deft and authoritative, making the experience of reading each landscape more like a controlled roller-coaster ride than the head-on crash it could have been. Emerging from multiple acute perspectives, characters writhe, snake, spew, thrust, stretch and contort across the picture plane...What remains unclear in the development of her composite narrative is its subjects' ultimate destiny. Certainly, anything remotely "natural" will shrivel and die, and if her mutant characters are at all dependent on an organic host, then they too are doomed. López's is a portrait of elements too powerful to stop but too dumb to realize that they're evolutionarily screwed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Text source: Nord Wennerstrom, Review: Nicola López, Irvine Contemporary Art, Art Forum, Washington D.C., October 2005 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Artwork info: Nicola López, Phase Change 1, 2008, monotype; etching, woodcut, plexiglas drypoint, collograph and collage, 26 x 25 1/4 inches, signed #nicolalopez #newyorkartist #nyc #environment #cityscape #urbanization #mixedmedia #phase #change (at Leslie Sacks Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqQLsxuFcZ5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ii1sxc7w6nct