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A Solo Exhibition by Xavier Lopez Jr.Over the course of a thirty-plus year career, Xavier Lopez, Jr. has come to be known for his own brand of lush, conceptual sculpture, especially his "sheet ghost" installations, flower Rorschachs, tin foil mountains and performance art. Intersectional to his core, Lopez combines identities (Latinx, nonbinary, and many more) in a wide-
ranging practice that varies from performance to mixed-media sculpture and painting.
In "Just Being", his first solo exhibition at Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Lopez explores a body of new work featuring installations and video, with wall-mounted 2D and 3D work that incorporates motion and audio. Mundane materials are chosen to represent the artist’s own youth as part of an investigation into themes of love and death, identity and culture.
Lopez’s work confronts the expectations that mainstream art criticism might place on artists of color; Just Being resists conforming to cultural expectations and instead celebrates its own beautiful, awkward strangeness.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
114 Third Ave S, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98104
