Critical essay · 2018
Felipe Lopez: The Allure of Water
The critic and University of Houston professor on water as the thread through the work.
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Felipe Lopez
Felipe Lopez’s creative elements are water and light.
Felipe Lopez is a multidimensional visual artist. Born in the Bronx to a Cuban-American family, he casts microcosms in resin inside the shape of a light bulb and suspends hand-tied fishing flies within them. These works become sculptures, chandeliers, faucets and immersive installations about water as a precious commodity and a spiritual element.
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Essay · 2018
The Allure of Water
Raphael Rubinstein
“Although Felipe Lopez is working in an abstract mode, his paintings and multi-medium sculptural works are no less deeply entranced by the domain of water… Like the aquatic element he so lovingly evokes, Lopez’s work is never at rest, always changing, relentlessly flowing into new artistic territory, making waves.”
Featured work · 2019
Spatio Aquarum
An immersive installation of fishing net, resin light bulbs and video, inviting viewers to stand inside the work.
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About
Sculptor and multidisciplinary artist, born in the Bronx to a Cuban American family of fishermen and farmers. The work fuses light bulbs, faucets, netting, and hand-tied fishing flies into illuminated sculptures about water and the natural world. Over fifteen years and more than fifty exhibitions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art Miami, and SCOPE Miami.
From water comes freedom.
Ab Aqua Libertas, 2019
I make these works from common objects, many of them petrochemical byproducts, as a statement about the state of our environment. The light bulb, the faucet, the fishing fly: each one is something we use without thinking, and each one depends on water. As a descendant of Cuban fishermen and farmers, I rebuild small natural worlds inside them. As a husband and father, I think about what we are leaving for the next generation to drink.
50+ exhibitions
MFAH
2019 City of Houston Individual Artist Grant
Work held in private collections in Texas and beyond
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03 · Depth
Exhibitions
Fifteen years, more than fifty shows, from Texas, NYC, Greece, and Beyond.
2021 · Solo
Retrospective within Sculpture Month Houston
Art Museum TX · Sugar Land, TX
2020 · Solo
Precautionary Principles of the New World
Deborah Colton Gallery · Houston
2020 · Biennial
21st Oso Bay Biennial
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi · Corpus Christi, TX
2020 · Performance
SPA Digital season, with Meghan Hendley and Emanuelee Outspoken Bean
Society for the Performing Arts · Houston
2019 · Solo
The Want In My Nature
Deborah Colton Gallery · Houston
2019 · Solo
The Liquidity of a Right
Forma 110, Spring Street Studios · Houston
2019 · Grant
Individual Artist Grant
City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance · Houston
2018 · Group
Texas Eclectics
Group exhibition · Greece
2018 · Solo
Ambiente Amore
Clarke & Associates · Houston
2017 · Fair
SCOPE Miami, with Asterisk Projects
SCOPE Miami Beach · Miami
2017 · Solo
Solo exhibition
The Duende Art Project · Houston
2017 · Group
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (PrintHouston 2017)
Cindy Lisica Gallery · Houston
2017 · Fair
Aspen Art Fair
Aspen Art Fair · Aspen, CO
2017 · Group
Natural Flexibility
Cindy Lisica Gallery · Houston
2016 · Solo
Solo exhibition
KCAM · Texas
2016 · Group
Group exhibition
Revision Space, curated by Cindy Lisica · Pittsburgh, PA
2015 · Group
African American Artist Exhibition
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston
2015 · Fair
Houston Fine Art Fair; Texas Contemporary Art Fair
George R. Brown Convention Center · Houston
2014 · Fair
Art Miami
Art Miami · Miami
2014 · Solo
Constructing the Praxis of Interactivity (first solo)
HAA Gallery · Houston
2014 · Solo
Solo exhibition (Synesthesia Sound Series)
Peveto Gallery · Houston
2014 · Group
Borderland: Hidden Identities & Forbidden Desires
Club Nautico de Zaragoza; MECA Mediterraneo Centro Artistico · Zaragoza and Almeria, Spain
2013 · Group
African American Artist Exhibition (Synesthesia Sound Series)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston
2013 · Group
Exposure
Photography exhibition · Long Island City, NY
2012 · Group
Plastic Fantastic
Deborah Colton Gallery · Houston
2012 · Solo
Solo exhibition and artist talk
Wade Wilson Art · Houston
2010 · Solo
Solo exhibition
Galveston Opera House · Galveston, TX
TBD · Fair
Dallas Art Fair
Dallas Art Fair · Dallas
Houston Arts Alliance and City of Houston Disaster Resiliency Committee, 2019 to 2020 · Artist INC facilitator, Fresh Arts, 2016
Press
Houston Chronicle · 2019
Felipe Lopez's show casts light on water issues
Review of The Liquidity of a Right, including how welding a faucet to a light bulb started the Faucet series.
ReadGlasstire · 2020
Five-Minute Tours: Felipe Lopez at Deborah Colton Gallery
A walk-through of Precautionary Principles of the New World.
WatchHoustonia · 2018
Ecology Meets Color at Clarke & Associates
On Ambiente Amore, four series bound together by netting, shown alongside collector Lester Marks.
ReadHouston Chronicle · 2020
Three shows to see now at Houston art galleries
Illuminated sculptures joining humanitarian themes and environmental science.
ReadPaperCity · 2019
Sculpture Month Houston fundraiser
Named among the top auction lots alongside James Surls and Sharon Kopriva.
ReadArtsy · 2019
The Want In My Nature
The gallery's full release for his first solo show with Deborah Colton.
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Collaborations
2020
SPA Digital commission
Meghan Hendley, Emanuelee Outspoken Bean
A new work joining visual art, music, and poetry for the Society for the Performing Arts digital season.
Ongoing
Chapel in the Sky
Meghan Hendley
Dream synth pop and visual project pairing electronic sound with engineered light.
Ongoing
Installations with Meghan Hendley Lopez
Meghan Hendley Lopez
Multi-dimensional installations of visual art, film, music, and written word.