López, Pola

“Pola Lopez was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico. She is a self-taught artist and immediately after High School, dedicated herself to becoming a full time artist. She was an active member of La Cofradia de Arte y Artesanos in New Mexico, which was an organization, a brotherhood of Hispano Artists promoting awareness, opportunities and exhibits to share their creative cultural work in a market where they were underserved and unrecognized.

During those years, she owned and operated studio galleries in Las Vegas, her home town, and subsequent years in Taos and Santa Fe. She participated for many years in the Contemporary Spanish Market held on the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2003, she relocated to Los Angeles in search of the Chicano Art Movement, where she explored different avenues and venues with her work, residing there until Oct of 2020. Most recently she has returned to her native New Mexico due to the Covid-19 virus.

Lopez is a prominent painter, whose work is a multifaceted and polychromatic array of symbolic imagery that is infused with spiritual vision and incendiary composition. She draws inspiration from a rich and diverse southwestern cultural heritage, by which various mythologies are filtered and conveyed through her palette of vivacious tones and highly stylized perspective.”

Episode: Finding Identity, Pola López

Website: https://www.polalopez.com