About

Lizz Lopez is a fine artist working primarily in graphite. She has a lengthy art history with a background in photography, sculpture, classical oil painting, graphic and movie picture design. Her work centers on death and is represented symbolically and allegorically via images of lady reapers, hands, botanicals and the macabre. Having been raised the daughter of a Baptist minister in Texas, much of her work demonstrates nuances of religion but extends into folklore, metaphysics and spiritual ideas ranging from Christianity to the occult. She has studied anatomy extensively through her education in science and anesthesia as well as formally in art school. She combines a meditative practice that incorporates magick and ritual with the intent of assembling each drawing as a spiritual invocation as well as a gentle admonition to the spectator reminding them of the transience of life. By inciting the imminent communal experience of death, she delivers a message of fragility and awareness of mortality. Her work concentrates on representing the morbid in an enticing sensual nature through the feminization of death further revealing it as an esoteric and delicate seductive form.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSE ANESTHESIA, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FULLERTON/KAISER PERMANENTE SCHOOL OF ANESTHESIA–August 2007–09

BACHELOR IN FINE ARTS INTERDISCIPLINARY FINE ARTS: PAINTING, SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE–August 1997-May 2000

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING, UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD August 1991-May 1996

Sigma Theta Tau, 1996, Who’s Who in American Students, American Academy of Scholars TX, 1996, Sigma Theta Tau 2009

Publications:

-Hey deluxe 2 International art magazine, 2018
-Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts, 3d total publishing 2018
-Pandæmonium: Devils, Demons & Monsters
-Black & White: Volume Two
-Black & White: Volume Three
-Black & White: Volume Four
-E-volved magazine  spring #7
-Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/la-et-cm-danny-fuentes-lethal-amounts-gallery-20180828-htmlstory.html
-LA Weekly
https://www.laweekly.com/viva-la-muerte-lizz-lopez-at-lethal-amounts-gallery/

-There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture by Domino Renee Perez
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/perthe (https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/perthe)

Selected Exhibitions: