Nicola López | Neither There nor Here | Viewing Room
Nicola López, UnWild 3, 2021, cyanotype on paper, 22 x 30" paper, 25.75 x 34.25" framed, $6,000 paper
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to present a multimedia exhibition by New York artist Nicola López. The show features several bodies of work including a series of graphite drawings, wall-sized works on paper, cyanotypes, and an immersive 4-channel video room installation.
Installation view of the exhibition Neither There nor Here.
López’s interdisciplinary practice includes printmaking, drawing, collage, installation and videos of reimagined worlds that combine landscape and architecture. Her gorgeously disorienting visual paradoxes continue to elicit new ways of looking at urban and natural environments. Neither There nor Here thematically explores “place” and the ways humans construct ideas about the spaces we inhabit. López’s longtime printmaking practice is evident throughout the exhibition and highlights her dynamic use of image seriality, layering, and variability in each medium.
Installation view of UnWild 1-7.
ABOVE: López’s cyanotypes in process.
Her recent series of cyanotypes are created through a light-sensitive photographic process. The artist collected plants, flowers, and rocks (in the desert landscape where she grew up in New Mexico) and added stenciled geometric cut-outs to create hybrid nature/city silhouettes that appear to glow inside an electric blue palette.
Nicola López, UnWild 2, 2021, cyanotype on paper, 30 x 22" paper, 34.25 x 25.75" framed
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Nicola López, UnWild 6, 2021, cyanotype on paper, 30 x 22" paper, 34.25 x 25.75" framed
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López working at Interbang Press in Santa Fe, NM. Image provided by the artist.
Nicola López, Crevice, 2022, woodcut with chine-collé, 21 x 20" paper,
23.5 x 22.25" framed, Edition of 14
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Nicola López, Canyon, 2022, woodcut with chine-collé, 21 x 20" paper,
23.5 x 22.25" framed, Edition of 14
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Nicola López, Cave, 2022, woodcut with chine-collé, 21 x 20" paper,
23.5 x 22.25" framed, Edition of 14
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Installation view of LandForm 2 and LandForm 1.
LandForm 1, 2021 (detail).
Massive LandForm drawings stand ten feet tall, made through a graphite rubbing technique that transfers an image from a surface below the paper. López’s spontaneous, improvised forms are intended to look both familiar and implausible; a poetic conflation of geology and architecture.
Nicola López, LandForm 3, 2021, graphite on paper, 126 x 66"
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Nicola López, Searching for Here, 4 channel video, 10 minutes, Edition of 8, 3AP
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In the stop-motion video projections of cityscapes, Searching for Here, López layers hand-drawn shapes onto aerial views of streets and buildings. Multiplying structures morph like living creatures activated by shapes and colors that reiterate the hand of the artist and the present moment.
ABOVE: Searching for Here (one of four channels)
Installation view of Neither There nor Here 1-20.
Neither There nor Here gouache works on paper in progress. Image provided by the artist.
Nicola López, Neither There nor Here 1–20, 2020, gouache and ink on inkjet print on paper, 13 x 19" each
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Installation view of the exhibition Neither There nor Here.
PAST PROJECTS
Listen to the 2019 KBOO interview with Nicola López and Joseph Gallivan as they discuss her exhibition, Hybrids.
Take a look back at López’s 2011 exhibition, Landscape X, at the Guggenheim as a part of their Intervals series. Read more about the work, view installation images, and watch her 2013 artist talk.
