"Breath me" by Adriana Lopez
Mixed Media
"Humidity" by Adriana Lopez
Mixed Media
"I fell you" by Adriana Lopez
Rubix Cube and digital photography
"Inside us" by Adriana Lopez
Ceramics
"Los ausentes I " by Adriana Lopez
Digital photography
"Los ausentes II " by Adriana Lopez
Digital photography
"Take off" by Adriana Lopez
Acrylics on canvas
"The Golden Years" by Adriana Lopez
Collagraph
"Shadows in the dessert" by Adriana Lopez
Acrylics on canvas
"We need us" by Adriana Lopez
Mixed Media
"What drips" by Adriana Lopez
Mixed Media
Artist Statement
Adriana Lopez
In
an artificial world where being different is seen as a negative aspect we odd
to look ways to define ourselves and differentiate ourselves from the rest. I
first started the IB Visual Arts course as an escape from the present and as a
free space where being wrong is not criticized but yet embraced as a symbol of
growing. Throughout the course I managed to work with different medias such as
ceramics, Indian ink, watercolors, candle smoke, photography, oil paints, and
acrylics. I based my artworks under two different themes addressing two
problems: real love versus sexuality and who you really are versus what society
wants you to be. I was moved by artists such as Andy Warhol which and his pop
art style to develop an airplane breaking through a cloud out of war and Miguel
Hernandez and his interesting work with smoke, which I used in order to create
my own piece criticizing two lovers whose love fades away repressed by society.
I also researched about the Costa Rican culture and how we are a product of the
society we live in. At the beginning of the course I was scared of putting
myself out there and turning my thoughts into art works but practice makes the
master, and in art you can never be wrong. In the end I believe these are not
only sketches I’ve made, each and every art piece I developed through the time
being tell my story. They somehow rebel my own inquietudes and my feelings,
getting to the conclusion that in the end it’s not society the one to blame but
ourselves because of letting society play with us and destroy our essence. I
believe I found “heaven on Earth” through art as my art professor once said. By
going deep into your insecurities you find yourself and you grow.
April, 2014
At the interview
Getting ready for the interview
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