Ron Lopez: Art. Medicine for the Disease of Living. 

August 28 – October 11
Encore Gallery Hours:
Mondays & Fridays, 4-6pm

Ron Lopez grew up in Raton, New Mexico. For Lopez, visual art was a refuge that offered inspiration, confidence, and a means of expression.  Lopez is self-taught. With no formal art education, he acknowledges a range of influences, including Picasso, de Kooning, Mark de Suvero, John Chamberlin’s work made from found car parts, and especially David Smith, whose works Lopez says “clarified my intent, and inspired me to start working with steel.”

Lopez explains that his goal is to share unadulterated emotions and child-like fascination with the world. Through his sculptures, anatomies of solid steel and wood, he aims to capture the subconscious shapes and colors of what we feel and remember. Describing his creative process, he says “I make a piece, and in a few days, when I come back to it, if it still excites me, I think, well it works. Then, I just keep going.”