Xavier Lopez,
Jr. has come to be known for his own brand of lush, conceptual sculpture, performance and painting, especially his “sheet ghost” installations, flower Rorschachs, tin foil
mountains and performance art. Intersectional to his core, Lopez combines
identities (Latinx, nonbinary, and many more) in a wide- ranging practice that
varies from performance to mixed-media sculpture and painting.

Lopez’s work transcends easy categorization and reflects
influences from modern and postmodern art history and, perhaps more deeply,
Latinx culture as expressed outside the stereotypes of Day of the Dead. As much
as he identifies as a Latinx artist, Lopez also wants to escape the limited
versions that mainstream society has created for a “Latinx artist.” The
Eurocentric expectation that an artist of color use their cultural heritage as
a direct resource (for example) is wonderfully subverted, even as echoes of the
Catholic tradition almost glimmer here and there in both material and
performance, as Lopez presents objects as if they were once part of a lost
ceremonial practice.

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