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Joanna Keane Lopez (b. 1991, Albuquerque, NM) is an artist whose work is informed through adobe, paper, clay, wood, textiles and song. She inherited the practice of working with adobe, a mixture of mud and straw, from her family who constructed, maintained, and lives in earthen homes and continues the teachings of enjarradoras and adoberas, women who specialize in the traditional craft of earthen architecture. Keane Lopez’s practice restores the loss of vernacular land-based building methods through the production of sculpture, installation and hands-on educational workshops that navigate loss, fragmentation, land contamination and materiality.
Keane Lopez has exhibited nationally at institutions which include: Lisson Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, The Momentary of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, Sarasota Art Museum and has been supported by the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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