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Joanna Keane Lopez (b. 1991, Albuquerque, NM) is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, photography, site-specific installation, and vernacular craft traditions of the American Southwest. Her work engages traditional earthen architecture, craft practices and archival research to examine the intersections of land, architecture, and materiality of adobe, wood, paper, stone and textiles. Inheriting adobe building methods from her family in New Mexico, Keane Lopez continues the craft legacy of enjarradoras and adoberas— women who specialize in the traditional art of earthen architecture. Recovering and reimagining building practices and craft histories through sculpture, installation, and educational workshops allows her to investigate themes of memory, fragmentation, post-colonial materiality, vernacular architecture and land contamination.
Keane Lopez has exhibited nationally at institutions which include: SITE Santa Fe, The Momentary of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The San Jose Art Museum, 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.