SITElab 15: Joanna Keane Lopez: Land Craft Theatre
New Mexico-based artist Joanna Keane Lopez’s practice reclaims adobe and wildcrafting traditions and celebrates the legacy of the adobera and enjarradora—women who are masters at constructing and preserving earthen buildings. Exploring the boundaries between large-scale installation and adobe architecture, Land Craft Theatre examines notions of home and functions as a stage for stories of connection.
An intimate dialogue between artist and material, Land Craft Theatre enriches the viewer’s understanding of land-sourced materials, such as adobe and botanical dyes and brings each aspect of the creative process into focus. Comprising two large-scale sculptural installations (adobe and paper), Keane Lopez incorporates plant and insect dyes, land-sourced colored clays, and hand-harvested aliz (a traditional clay plaster) from New Mexico.
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Thurs, Oct 27, 2021
Exhibiting artist Joanna Keane Lopez discusses the history of adobe architecture, the relationship of land based practices to contemporary art, and her SITElab exhibition, Land Craft Theatre with earth architecture expert Ronald Rael.
Joanna Keane Lopez collaborated with students from the New Mexico School for the Arts to create a temporary public sculpture in front of the museum.