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MARIA LOPES
Feature In:
Magazine Issues: 15/21, 16/21, 18/22, 22/22, 27/23
Exhibitions:
11th and 12th/24 October – Underground Digital Exhibition
Leicester Square Station and Oxford Circus Station, London, UK
20th and 22nd/24 June – Times Square “Digital Exhibition”
NYC, USA – Artist Talk Magazine
31st Dec/23 – Times Square “Digital Exhibition”
NYC, USA – Artist Talk Magazine
7th Oct/23 - Joint Exhibition “Narrativa Pictórica do Amor” Welcome to Art Lisbon
“Embaixada”, Princípe Real, Lisboa, Portugal
6th Oct/23 – Solo Exhibition “Don’t Fall in Love too Soon”
Lounge Casa da Guia, Cascais, Portugal
“Don’t fall in love too soon…” is what I keep telling myself when I’m working on a painting. I’ve learned that we artists should only “marry” the painting when it’s really done and until then, during the process, we should only date it. Sounds funny or weird but it’s the truth because if we fall in love too soon, we kill our creativity right in the beginning, since we won’t be open to go further and deeper in the process.I’ve been working hard on understanding my process and trying to find my way in art and this exhibit talks about that. Each painting is a part of this journey that will go on because that’s the good part of being an artist, we are constantly learning and pushing ourselves to move forward. This body of work includes acrylic, oil, pencil, cold wax, wax pastel, ink (shellac), on paper, linen canvas and wood panel. Hope you can enjoy this journey as much as I do!
20th Sep/23 – Arte no Moinho joint exhibition “Two Visions, One Ocean”
Moinho D.Quixote, Azoia, Portugal
June/23 – 7th Ave & 43rd St – Times Square “Digital Exhibition”
NYC, USA - Artist Talk Magazine
December/2022 – Joint exhibition “Christmas Exhibition”
Welcome to Art Lisbon, Portugal
November/2022 – Joint exhibition “Wrapping a Dream”
Welcome to Art Lisbon, Portugal
October/2022 – Solo exhibition “Dear Diary”
at Moinho D.Quixote, “Arte no Moinho”, Azoia, Portugal
October/2022 – Joint exhibition “Flare Up”
at Galeria Azur, Berlin, Germany
‘FLARE-UP’
Galeria Azur Berlin - (8-10-22)
This year I decided to take a bigger step by agreeing to take part in an exhibition in Berlin. It’s a bold decision for me but a necessary one. I’ll be presenting 3 paintings in the physical exhibit and a total of 10 paintings on the virtual exhibit. This body of work is from different series, but they all have a common thread which is the importance of color in my work. Of course, other elements are important, like design, texture, value/contrast…but the outburst of my feelings and emotions is always manifested through color.
Here is a description of the exhibition concept, by the Director of the Curation Team of Galeria Azur:
“In a journey through the most recent production of contemporary artists, we can certainly establish a “flare-up” of color, where the concept and material dialogue generate tension and delight. The new curatorial proposal of Galeria Azur Berlin manages to integrate a plurality of registers where fiction and information are manifested uniquely.
Continuities and ruptures move along these works forming solid and ethereal structures. The selection of works shows qualities of color, interest in gradations, timbral notes of tonal saturation, and nuances where transparency and reflection play a fundamental role.
Color expands with a great deal of sensuality, random or controlled, but consistently hypnotic.
Artists resort to different methods, techniques, and matter treatment to move along the diverse states of color. From the liquid to the solid, the effects of painting - such as investigative element - are glimpsed between transparencies, wear or matter resistance rather tactile or visual. The constant investigation of the matter, which in this exhibition shows as a "flare-up", emerges in these works as a back-and-forth game that invites rationalized decoding or carefree contemplation. Ceres Gonzalez”
June/2022 – Broadway Plaza Digital Exhibition
NYC, USA - Artist Talk Magazine
On June 2022 I had the pleasure to showcase one of my paintings on a Digital Exhibition at Broadway Plaza/Times Square, organized by Artist Talk Magazine.
This was a big challenge and a victory.
“Sonnet to Flowers” was the work I decided to showcase. It represents my most inner feelings for the surrounding nature where I live. On my walks I’m confronted with its beauty, and it has been the theme for a big part of my work because it inspires and ignites my art through color, texture, design and value.
Looking closer to nature is daily practice, where I pay attention and look closer to all details, taking hundreds of mental pictures, that then I reproduce in my paintings. In this painting I used a mix media technique with graphite, acrylic and finishing it with oil, on paper.
I wanted the viewer to feel the power of nature, like an outburst of emotions.
Artist Talk Magazine is a magazine for everyone and is written by Artists. The main focus of the magazine is to showcase Artists and to give them a chance to share, in more depth, the work they produce. This magazine aims to showcase a wide range of work, inspired by many different influences. The magazine originates from the United Kingdom but will feature Artists from across the globe. It is their great pleasure to showcase some incredible artists from around the globe, hopefully this gives a great feel to the magazine with lots of different voices.
Past issues have included articles from the following: Courtauld Institute of Art, The Royal Academy of Arts, Porsche, K11 Musea, Whitney Museum of American Art (This featured a range of the great American painters such as Roy Lichtenstein), The Painted Hall Old Royal Naval College, Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, Peter Lindbergh, William Kentridge, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Museo Picasso Malaga, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, Zeitz MOCAA, Paul Cézanne, Jaquet Droz and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. You can view the magazine archive here - artisttalkmagazine.com/magazine-archive
2021 – Digital Exhibition “Elsewhere & Other Places”
by ArtAviso
September/2021 – Solo exhibition “Layers”
at Moinho D.Quixote, “Arte no Moinho”, Azoia, Portugal
“We are all made of layers. They are what define us and compile our lives, like hundreds of photographs piled up inside us.”
- shares the artist Maria Lopez while opening the doors of her atelier, showing her inspirations and creative process.
“Galeria - Arte No Moinho” project.
September 30th & October 1st. - 2021
MM22 | Cascais.
Projecto mm22 is a colaboration between two emerging artists and good friends - a photographer and a painter- willing to go outside of their confort zone.
It started with a photo printed on canvas by Miguel Pisco (aka Carmo.mp) and afterwards painted by Maria Lopes.
From this sinergy several works have already emerged in the shape of "Dípticos" (diptychs) composed by the @carmo.mp's original photo and the one over which Maria Lopes has painted.
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Miguel Pisco