Joanna Keane Lopez (MFA '24) receives the 2023 Murphy Award
Sep
14
to Oct 6

Joanna Keane Lopez (MFA '24) receives the 2023 Murphy Award

The Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award is given to an MFA student of unusual caliber with great artistic promise. Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan both experienced financial challenges as art students and understood the great difference scholarships can make in the early phase of an artist’s career. The winners of the Murphy and Cadogan scholarships each receive support for their MFA studies. All the students benefit from participation in a professionally curated exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center and mentorship from curator Kevin B. Chen.

2023 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awardees

Murphy Awardee

Joanna Keane Lopez, Stanford University

Cadogan Awardees

Salimatu Amabebe, University of California, Berkeley

Jonathon Bout, San Francisco State University

Xianghan Cheng, California College of the Arts

Lynse A. Cooper, California College of the Arts

Cynthia Gonzalez, San Jose State University

Valencia James, University of California, Berkeley

Leah Koransky, San Francisco State University

Wendy Liu, Stanford University

Nivedita Madigubba, University of California, Berkeley

Jessica Monette, Stanford University

Lucía Moreno Nava, San Francisco State University

Yunfei Ren, Stanford University

Chelsea América Torres, San Francisco State University

 

The 2023 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition is on view September 15–October 6, 2023 at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. An opening reception and awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, September 14, 6-9pm.

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Mud Kin: Mapping Adobe and Land-based Indigenous & Latinx Projects from Southern California to West Texas
Jul
14
to Jul 29

Mud Kin: Mapping Adobe and Land-based Indigenous & Latinx Projects from Southern California to West Texas

USC Roski Art Gallery, LA Arts District

Curated by Tracy Fenix, USC MA & MUP

William Camargo, Alyssa Chandelle, Sandro Canovas, Jazmin Garcia, Camille & Melinda Hoffman, Joanna Keane Lopez, Carlos Jaramillo, Ozzie Juarez, Arlene Mejorado, Reyes Padilla, Ronald Rael, Daisy Quezada Ureña, Ernesto Yerena Montejano, Jose Villalobos, and Cougar Vigil.

A contemporary cohort of Indigenous, Latinx, and Immigrant artists and activists working in the southwestern United States are engaging with ancestral adobe structures and construction to resist artistic, cultural, and ecological assimilation. Predominant expressions of land-based art and environmental activism in the US have historically ignored Indigenous and Latinx contributions, and at the same time, acquiring critical reception or scholarly notice has been tied to the whitewashing of cultural signifiers. These artists and activists preserve ancestral adobe and ecological practices to keep its roots within Indigenous heritage while promoting its inclusion to canonical land-based artworks and also promoting its environmental sustainability in the deserts of the Southwest. Through the creation and care of adobe-based art and ecological infrastructure, they are staging interventions against displacement and a loss of cultural memory caused by settler colonialism and other oppressive regimes of power. Fenix's MA thesis exhibition narrates their ancestral native adopted frontera relationality alongside their family to chart how these artists use adobe to create physical and imagined homes of resistance, threading within it a subjective narrative through the ancestral lands of First Nation and Mexican people in the southwestern United States, to reorient future scholarship on land-based art and activism toward its ancestral, Indigenous coordinates--those of community belonging and ecological sustainability. It’s also one component of a larger “Mud Kin” ongoing project that will encompass an archive of interviews and photographs and other interventions that express Indigenous placekeeping, as well as an exhibition, a publication, and an ArchGIS mapping tool.

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Distribuidx, Lisson Gallery, New York, 29 June – 11 August 2023
Jun
29
to Aug 11

Distribuidx, Lisson Gallery, New York, 29 June – 11 August 2023

Curated by César García-Alvarez

Marcel Pardo Ariza | Felipe Baeza | rafa esparza | ektor garcia | Frieda Toranzo Jaeger | María de Los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez | Joanna Keane Lopez | Maria Maea | Hélio Oiticica | Edgar Ramirez | Carlos Reyes | Analia Saban | Vivian Suter | Sarah Zapata

Lisson Gallery is pleased to present Distribuidx, a group exhibition conceived as a conversation between the late Hélio Oiticica and a group of intergenerational artists with varying relationships to Latin America. The presentation is curated by César García-Alvarez, the Executive & Artistic Director of The Mistake Room in Los Angeles.  

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Land + Craft: Artist Talk with Joanna Keane Lopez & Ronald Rael
Oct
27
6:00 PM18:00

Land + Craft: Artist Talk with Joanna Keane Lopez & Ronald Rael

Join exhibiting artist Joanna Keane Lopez at SITE Santa Fe to learn more about her artistic practice, inspirations, and SITElab exhibition, Land Craft Theatre. Along with earth architecture expert Ronald Rael, Keane Lopez will discuss the history of adobe architecture in regional and global cultural contexts. Rael and Keane Lopez will discuss the relationship of land based practices to contemporary art, building traditions and social practices. $5 admission.

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New Mexico Magazine Feature
Jul
1
to Jul 30

New Mexico Magazine Feature

A feature written by Maria Manuela for the July edition of New Mexico Magazine.

“Between the clay and the art, she says, her work looks forward and back. “It goes back to the family,” she says. “It’s a rebuilding of something and looking back toward memory or tradition or history. But at the same time, it builds toward something new or a healing.”    

At 28, with only four years of working in this medium under her palms, Keane Lopez has drawn national attention. 

She was recently featured in American Craft magazine and was chosen to show work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Arkansas, in an exhibit that featured 60 artists hailed by the museum as the future of contemporary art. The Harwood Art Center, in Albuquerque, holds one of her permanent installations.”

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State of The Art 2020 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art & The Momentary
Feb
22
to May 24

State of The Art 2020 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art & The Momentary

Opening February 22, 2020 — I will be creating a site specific adobe sculptural installation for the upcoming State of The Art 2020 exhibition taking place at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Lauren Haynes, curator of visual arts at the Momentary and curator of contemporary art at Crystal Bridges, is leading State of the Art 2020, along with Alejo Benedetti, assistant curator of contemporary art, Crystal Bridges and Allison Glenn, associate curator of contemporary art, Crystal Bridges. The team visited studios across the country, resulting in the selection of a diverse group of 60 artists, from varied backgrounds and at different points in their careers.

More than 100 artworks will be featured in State of the Art 2020— most created in the last three years. A number of artists are making site specific works in response to the interior architecture of both spaces as well as the histories of this region. At both the Momentary and Crystal Bridges, artwork will include paintings, sculpture, photography, video, performance, and mixed media.

The 60 individuals in State of the Art 2020 represent a cross-section of artists working today and their artwork will be organized into thematic sections including world-building: creating real and fictional spaces; sense of place: investigating ideas of home, family, immigration, and more; mapping: connections to and relationships with landscapes and power, and temporality: the concept of time and how we perceive it.

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American Craft feature
Feb
1
to Mar 31

American Craft feature

American Craft magazine published a four page spread feature entitled, “Legacy of The Land: A conversation with Joanna Keane Lopez on the architectural traditions that inform her adobe art” written by Emily Freidenrich for their Home Issue of Feb/March 2020.

“Keane Lopez says her work “takes on this quality of being an echo, a ghost, a memory of land based lifestyles, something lost and fragmented and reaching to recover or reconnect or find some kind of inkling of continuity.”

Read here

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Article on State of the Art 2020 exhibition
Dec
11
2:30 PM14:30

Article on State of the Art 2020 exhibition

“Two University of New Mexico alumni are among the 59 artists who have been selected to show their work in the State of the Art 2020 exhibit at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite The Momentary in Bentonville, Ark. Frank Blazquez and Joanna Keane Lopez were selected this summer to be included in the exhibit.

Keane Lopez will build an installation on site at the museum. Her installations of adobe and mirrors echo New Mexico architecture as it reflects the land and sky and the viewer standing within it.

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Almost Lost Arts book talk with Emily Freidenrich
Oct
6
3:00 PM15:00

Almost Lost Arts book talk with Emily Freidenrich

I was featured in the newly published book, Almost Lost Arts: Traditional Crafts and the Artisans Keeping Them Alive by Emily Freidenrich. We had a book talk at the El Rey Court in Santa Fe hosted by Santa Fe Found and talked about my art practice with adobe and time learning from Anita Rodríguez.

I highly recommend Almost Lost Arts. It highlights over 20 artisans ranging from neon sign makers, the last cassette tape manufacturer to natural dye methods of Oaxaca.

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Pop-up exhibit with Judy Chicago's, Through the Flower Art Space
Jul
20
to Jul 21

Pop-up exhibit with Judy Chicago's, Through the Flower Art Space

I will be having a pop-up exhibition entitled Women + Mud in conjunction with the grand opening of Judy Chicago’s, Through the Flower Art Space in the Old City Hall of Belen, New Mexico through July 20-21st. The pop-up group exhibition is juried by Judy Chicago.

The Through The Flower Art Space, originally established in 1978, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that counters the erasure of women’s achievements through art by providing educational resources and artistic opportunities.

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Leadership Scholar, West Creative Placemaking Summit
Feb
7
to Feb 9

Leadership Scholar, West Creative Placemaking Summit

Joanna Keane Lopez is one of the first scholars to receive the new Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit scholarship to attend the West CPL Summit in Albuquerque next month. The scholarship program seeks to bring artists, students, civic volunteers to the three-day events for creative placemakers. The summits attract key decision makers and from arts administration, philanthropy, planning, design, community development, economic development and architecture. The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking created the program to give people from under-represented communities a chance to contribute and be heard at the gatherings.

The NCCP produces the summits with ArtPlace America across the country.

Creative placemaking happens when artists and arts organizations join their neighbors in shaping their community’s future, working together on place-based community outcomes. It’s not necessarily focused on making places more creative; it’s about creatively addressing challenges and opportunities. Success is measured in the ways artists, formal and informal arts spaces, and creative interventions have contributed toward community outcomes.  We believe creative placemaking at its best is locally defined and informed and about the people who live, work, and play in a place. ​

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Mural Fest 2018
Sep
22
to Oct 7

Mural Fest 2018

Painted a mural at St. John’s Thrift Shop in Downtown Albuquerque on 14th and Central in collaboration with Mural Fest 2018!

This year's theme When Nature Calls brings focus to Planet Earth’s climate crisis and how it is effecting all life on this floating rock we call home.  From California being on fire to Houston, Puerto Rico & Hawaii drowning in water and lava to New Mexico facing one of the worst droughts in history - we felt a need to bring our world community together through murals, music and culinary arts to highlight solutions we can all play a part in moving forward.

We are bringing artists, non-profits, local businesses, neighborhood associations & main streets, The City of Albuquerque and You together to celebrate our culture and the path to a safer, more sustainable future.

Mural Fest is a catylist in the development of a more unified, safer, beautiful city.

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Public Art Network Year in Review "National Recognition to the Best in Public Art Projects Annually"
Jun
15
to Jul 15

Public Art Network Year in Review "National Recognition to the Best in Public Art Projects Annually"

T.I.M.E (Temporary Installations Made for the Environment) Edgewood 2017 of New Mexico Arts: Art in Public Places, a project I was a part of in 2017, was awarded through the juried selection of the Public Art Network Americans for the Arts Year in Review!

The other artists include Allyson Packer, Joshua Willis, Sara Cummings and Jodi Miller. 

Each year, New Mexico Arts partners with a local community to commission up to ten temporary, visually engaging, and conceptually rich environmental artworks to be displayed for a short term exhibition in that community. The opening of the exhibit is often tied to another important community event. The artworks relate to a designated theme, and New Mexico Arts challenges artists to create environmental pieces that inspire, question, engage, and otherwise influence the citizens of and visitors to the host community. New Mexico Arts is interested in interactive art that encourages an audience response and transforms participants into active contributors to the creative process. The artworks are displayed for the length of the exhibit, and at the end of the exhibition they are disassembled and removed, leaving no trace of ever having existed. TIME was inspired by the emerging public art trend to engage artists interested in creating more spontaneous and immediate artworks with short life-spans. New Mexico Arts hopes that this kind of project will engage both communities and artists in the public art process. Projects and project details can be viewed at http://nmarts.org/2017-edgewood-persistence/

 

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Morongo Basin Active Transportation Plan
May
18
to Jun 30

Morongo Basin Active Transportation Plan

I'm working as a community engagement artist for the Morongo Basin Active Transportation Plan of San Bernardino County that is funded through the Southern California Association of Governments' Sustainability Grant Program. 

The goal of the plan is to identify potential strategies and projects that will help make the Morongo Basin community a safer, more accessible and better connected place to walk and ride bikes. The region includes Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley, Morongo Valley, Landers and the Joshua Tree National Park community.

As a part of this project, I am hosting community engagement activities in the Joshua Tree region to encourage community members to make paintings on wood, map drawings, and share stories about transportation in the area. Through the paintings, drawings and stories I will be creating two temporary way-finding installation sculptures in the local area. 

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Resolana: Public Art + Performance
May
5
5:00 PM17:00

Resolana: Public Art + Performance

Resolana is a public art project created by Joanna Keane Lopez through the support of the Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The site-specific installation is composed of a south-facing, half-mooned adobe sculptural wall embedded with mirrors that reflects the audience and landscape. Resolana is a New Mexican term meaning “the place where the sun shines” or “a sunny side of a wall”. It is traditionally a place in the community where people can gather to converse, share and reflect. Instead of a wall that separates people, Resolana acts as a space to bring people together in dialogue and performance.

Opening Saturday, May 5, 2018

Front grounds of Factory on 5th Art Space/Kosmos, 1715 5th St NW, ABQ

Free & catered by the Kosmos Restaurant & Spellbound Syrups

Performers!

Glitter Vomit is music about miscommunication and the tools that make it happen. It is music that you might hear in a basement after the apocalypse, picture a candle light ritual mourning the loss of communication in the digital age, cell phones, radio, and recordings of old friends. Glitter Vomit sounds like static, it sounds like long slow thoughts, vulnerable sparse and layered guitar and vocals in an echo chamber. Glitter Vomit is currently a solo project of Jazmyn Crosby with occasional collaborators.

Kateri López’s songs echo the silence and timidity of the desert.

Nizhonniya Austin is a multi-media artist and musician based out of Albuquerque, NM. Her sounds embody a subtle and ethereal expression of love, loss, and feeling. In her writing, she often explores the sentiment of the human heart and the glory of renascence. Nizhonniya also comes from a lineage of Diné healers and medicine men and carries on their relationship with song. Although her music is contemporary, she believes that the power of healing! through music remains the same in all languages, cultures, and artistic mediums.

Rae Red (Rae Anna Hample) is a multi-media artist, based out of Marfa, TX. She combines personal narrative, with environmental justice, shadow puppetry, animation, and live singing to create jubilant performances. Her work is playfully macabre, and often explores what it means to transform.  

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Joanna Keane Lopez is the creator & organizer of Resolana: Public Art + Performance. She is an artist, designer and builder who works with site-specific installation and public art. She was born and raised in Albuquerque and currently works and lives between Albuquerque and Joshua Tree, California. www.joannakeanelopez.com

This project is supported by the Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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Because It's Time: Unraveling Race & Place in New Mexico
May
4
5:30 PM17:30

Because It's Time: Unraveling Race & Place in New Mexico

  • National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Because It’s Time: Unraveling Race and Place in NM examines race and identity in New Mexico and is a space for artistic expression that grapples with the complexities of who we are, how we are understood, and how that impacts the way we live (or don’t) in a variety of places.  The exhibition features approximately 26 newly created artworks by artists with different experiences in New Mexico alongside works from the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum’s permanent collection. All of the artworks delve into race and place through an intersectional lens alongside gender, sexuality, class, nationality, citizenship status, etc. from local, national, and international perspectives.

Invited artists include: Adelina Cruz, Adriana Ortiz-Carmona, Apolo Gomez Autumn Chacon, Aziza Murray, Baochi Zhang, Brandee Caoba, Corey Pickett, Cynthia Cook, Earl McBride, Ehren Kee Natay, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Eric-Paul Riege, Erin Currier, Fatemeh Baigmoradi, Grace Rosario Perkins, Hamed Marwan, Jami Porter Lara, Jessica Chao, Joanna Keane Lopez, John Boyce, Lucrecia Troncoso, Monica Kennedy, Nanibah Chacon, Rose B. Simpson, and Zahra Marwan.

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Site-Specific Commission for Encompass "Dream Spaces"
Mar
3
6:00 PM18:00

Site-Specific Commission for Encompass "Dream Spaces"

Encompass is a unique multigenerational art event that takes place annually in March. Presented by Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque, NM, Encompass features four gallery exhibitions, three site-specific commissions, 40 open artist studios, collaborative art making projects and activities for all ages. It is both a reflection of and an offering to our community.

Harwood Art Center, 1114 Seventh St. NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 

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Convergence: Arcosanti
Nov
9
to Nov 11

Convergence: Arcosanti

Showcasing an installation for Convergence at Arcosanti, Arizona. 

"Arcosanti is an urban laboratory focused on innovative design, community, and environmental accountability. Our goal is to actively pursue lean alternatives to urban sprawl based on Paolo Soleri's theory of compact city design, Arcology (architecture + ecology)."

"Convergence is bringing together renowned speakers, artists, musicians, and activators to co-create an experience of vibrancy, action, and hope. You can wander amidst the built structures and the 860 acres of protected riparian landscape within moments of your campsite." 

"You can weave yourself through a flow of Keynotes, Workshops, Panel Discussions, Art Installations, Performances, Film Screenings, Acoustic and Dance Music."

"There will be topics ranging from Food and Farming, Localism and Sovereignty, Indigeneity and Colonialism, Community Economics, Permaculture, to Immigration, and more."

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Interview w/ Tierra Firme Projects
Jul
18
to Jul 19

Interview w/ Tierra Firme Projects

Interview with Tierra Firme Projects regarding my last public art project Persist, Repeat, Reflect!

Tierra Firme is dedicated to contemporary land-based art. It examines how women, queer artists and artists of color see land and the built environment in relation to themselves as individuals and as members of broader collectives.

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T.I.M.E. (Temporary Installations Made for The Environment) Edgewood 2017
Jul
1
to Aug 30

T.I.M.E. (Temporary Installations Made for The Environment) Edgewood 2017

T.I.M.E. Edgewood 2017 encompasses five public temporary environmentally based artworks exhibited in various locations in Edgewood, New Mexico. This year's theme is persistence. The work is made possible by Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts, Route 66 Arts Alliance, and City of Edgewood. 

Persist, Repeat, Reflect by Joanna Keane Lopez is a sculptural installation that celebrates the persistence of the human being’s interaction with the landscape of Edgewood, New Mexico. The work engages the memory and nostalgia of materials such as adobe mud for building, earthen plastering techniques and architectural forms unique to the region. The work mirrors back the viewer and backdrop of the environment in contemplation, examination and reflection.

Opening Reception: July 1, 2017 

 

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Papermaking with Wildcrafted Plants
May
20
10:00 AM10:00

Papermaking with Wildcrafted Plants

During this workshop, participants learn how to create paper from wildcrafted plants. Throughout the day-long workshop students cook and break down plant material with alkali and learn how to make the pulp into sheets of paper through the mould & deckle process. The construction of how to make a mould & deckle will be demonstrated as well. 

Each person takes handmade wildcrafted paper home along with the knowledge of how to do it again! 

Class fee: $50 / $40 Harwood Members 

Location: Harwood Art Center's 6th Street Studio

Materials Fee: $10 paid to instructor 

Sign up here >> http://www.harwoodartcenter.org/programs-classes/weekend-classes/

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