Reimagining the Real

Artists Ana M. Lopez and Natalie Macellaio utilize the visual language of the everyday—air conditioning fixtures, fences, road signs, and construction debris—to create unique works of art that are both familiar and fantastical in order to make profound statements about power, privilege, and the environment.

Lopez’s work takes the ubiquitous forms of artificial air handling that populate many rooftops and walls and transforms them into garnitures. Lopez’s rooftop forms-turned-granitures invite viewers to reflect upon the West’s atmospheric colonization of the global climate. Macellaio focuses on the construction and deconstruction of the environment at the hands of mankind. Like the signs at a construction site, Macellaio’s pieces ask viewers to stop and consider the patterns and debris of modern development.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive, Memphis, United States