Linda Nguyen Lopez
Squiggle Dust Furry with Gold Rocks
Long Lake Estates
Blue Ombre Dust Furry with Sunset Cut Outs
Long Lake Estates
Linda Nguyen Lopez (b. 1981, Visalia, California) is first-generation American ceramic artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her abstract works explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, New Zealand, England and throughout the United States including the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; The Hole, New York; Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn; Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York and Museum of Art and Design, New York.
As she says about her “Furry” series: “My work is all about animating the inanimate. So just think about all those objects that are cold! Seeing objects as alive has roots to my childhood. My mother would often animate objects through language, such as telling me a toilet would choke if we put too much toilet paper in the toilet. This sense of life opened up a new perspective to everything around me.”
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