ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Shifting Perspectives
T
Nicola López’s geologic forms reflect New Mexico
HE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM
changes as light shifts in the lobby space
on 'place' and stems from an interest
LOBBY SEEMS enlivened
from different weather conditions and
in urban planning, architecture, and
thanks to the installation of
from morning to evening.
anthropology; it's further fueled by
Nicola López’s Haunted. The
large-scale installation features a site
The lobby seems an appropriate place for López’s work. Her art focuses
time working and traveling in different landscapes. According to the artist, there
specific landscape that vibrantly changes
is no longer any such thing as nature un-
throughout the day.
marked by humanity. Indeed, humanity
López is this year’s Visiting Artist, a
haunts nature with what we inflict on the
program funded in part by a grant from
ON VIEW
the Frederick Hammersley Foundation.
HAUNTED
Her three-dimensional piece includes col-
Through June 2021
teaches at Columbia University in New
Watch a video interview with the artist at cabq.gov/haunted
printmaking. Her work often has an archi-
laged, printed, and hand-drawn elements. It creates a landscape where natural and human-built features intertwine. Video projections animate the work. The piece 4
FALL 2020
Art. History. People.
environment in the name of progress. López, who now lives in Brooklyn and York, works in installation, drawing, and tectural feel, as evidenced by two prints the Museum recently acquired from the
