Artist Statement / Biography

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My artwork explores collective memory, identity, and trauma as a result of war. Through wide-scale collages, I use printmedia, big data, and averaging algorithms to create compositions that try to find meaning in the chaos of conflict.

As a survivor of war and a war refugee, I explore the relationship between lived experience and representation, between remembering and forgetting. My work searches for the proper artistic response to pain and suffering and interrogates whether it is right to seek inspiration from atrocities.

Through these compositions, I explore my experience as a contemporary artist in the age of big data, social networks, and the 24-hour news cycle. Here, the burin, ink, and pixel make the most sense.

BIOGRAPHY

Eddy A. López, born in Matagalpa, Nicaragua in the midst of the Sandinista revolution, is a printmedia artist whose work explores collective memory and trauma. His work has been exhibited at the the International Print Center New York, The Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Janet Turner Print Museum, the North American Print Biennial, ArtMiami, among others. López's recent exhibitions include X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday at the USF Contemporart Art Museum, Versos at the Doris Ulmann Galleries at Berea College, and Beautiful War at the Carroll Gallery in Huntington, WV, and the Samek Art Museum in Lewisburg, PA. He is the recipient of various awards and grants including an Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellow. López’s work can be found in the collections of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, and more.

López received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Miami, and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking as well as a BA in Art History from Florida International University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Photo by Emily Paine.