Happy Birthday Alma Lopez!
Born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Alma Lopez is a Chicana artist and feminist (Lesbian) activist. She received her MFA from University of California at Irvine. Lopez uses digital art to juxtapose images of familiar Mexican cultural and historical figures to impress her point. Catholicism is often combined with indigenous art. Her art is meant to empower women and indigenous people. She aims to call attention to subjects of rape, gender discrimination, sexual and racial issues. Her work often draws controversy, protest.
In addition to her art, Lopez is also a lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles, in the Department of Chicano/a Studies.
I am including her "Our Lady of Controversy" today...Alma's take on The Virgin of Guadalupe. In, Lopez' version, the Virgin wears a bikini of roses with indigenous symbols of the Aztec Moon Goddess patterned on her cloak. It is said that Lopez views the Virgin as more than a symbolic Catholic figure, but a representation of community, family.
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