(Austin, Texas); Polyglot Gallery invites the public to a special exhibition by Monterrey, Mexico artist J\u00e9sica L\u00f3pez at their new South Austin pop-up gallery space on Saturday, October 5 with an opening reception from 6 to 8 PM with the artist.<\/p>\n
The exhibition titled, Everyone is a Potential Provocateur, is an exhibition of twenty-five portraits of famous artists painted on Post-It\u00ae\u00a0notes. The series includes portraits of artists chosen by curator Adrian Aguilera such as Cy Twombly, Marina Abramovic, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Andy Warhol – all artists who, according to L\u00f3pez, through their craft have and continue to \u201cprovoke\u201d change.<\/p>\n
\u201cI originally began this project 10 years ago circumstantially. All I had on hand to begin a project was Post-It\u00ae\u00a0notes, brushes, magazines and some acrylic paint\u201d, explains L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n
Portrait painting is characteristic of J\u00e9sica L\u00f3pez\u2019s work, which often employs portrait painting to explore the relationship between representation vs. identity, posture vs. fame. Her work is often executed in a rapid hyperrealistic style. The series of Post-It\u00ae\u00a0notes initiated ten years ago includes a whole sub-series of pop icons, politicians, and actors, each inspired in part by pop art, as well as by artists such as Lichtenstein, or more recent artists such as Karen Kilimnik. The portraits paintings reveal their origins in photography and memory.<\/p>\n
J\u00e9sica L\u00f3pez is represented in Mexico by Galer\u00eda Enrique Guerrero where her most recent solo exhibit in August 2013, El Retrato<\/em>, \u00a0involved her doing live portraits of the patrons at the gallery. She also shows at Alternativa Once Galer\u00eda in Garza Garc\u00eda and Centro de las Artes II in Monterrey as well as at the Mexican Institute in Paris, France. In 2012 she exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow with an exhibition titled, Saludos a Gagarin: la popularidad es algo irreparable<\/em> (Salute to Gagarin: Popularity is somewhat irreparable). L\u00f3pez\u00a0show at Polyglot Gallery in Austin is her first US solo exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paintings by J\u00e9sica L\u00f3pez, curation by Adrian Aguilera Opening: Saturday, October 5, 2013 – Closing: November 30, 2013 (Austin, Texas); Polyglot Gallery invites the public to a special exhibition by Monterrey, Mexico artist J\u00e9sica L\u00f3pez at their new South Austin pop-up gallery space on Saturday, October 5 with an opening reception from 6 to 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,77,76,22,91,3],"tags":[80,101,78,79],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artnews","category-hyperrealism","category-jesica-lopez","category-mexico","category-painting","category-past","tag-acrylic","tag-hyperrealism","tag-painting-2","tag-post-it-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyglotgallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}