[3][4][5] Her art often portrays historical and cultural Mexican figures, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona, filtered through a radical Chicana feminist lesbian lens.

[9] She was born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa and is married to novelist and poet Alicia Gaspar de Alba.

[12] Alongside the image of the Virgin Mary much of the culture from both sides of the border influenced Lopez in the development of her artwork.

Our Lady is a photo-based digital print that depicts Raquel Salinas, a performance artist, confidently staring back at the viewer, wearing a bikini of roses.

The New Mexico Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan referred to Lopez’s Virgin as a “tart or streetwoman.” [6][7][8] However, the overt female homoeroticism remained largely absent from the controversy.

[13] In response to this protest Lopez said that Our Lady is not about sex or sexuality, but instead about showing strong women and the real lives of Chicanas.

It depicts a close up of a young woman staring straight at the viewer and crying, alluding to La Llorona.

[7] Lopez's choice to use Las Chicanas instead of Hernandez's Los Xicanos conveys her focus on Mexican women.

[11] Lopez saw the story of Alicia Alvarado, La Medusa, who herself had been inspired by a tag team match of luchadoras to become a wrestler herself.

In 2014 she and her students from her "Queer Art In LA" class at UCLA painted a mural in the LGBTQ studies offices.

The mural shows the queer community and their allies protesting the police raids of the Black Cat Tavern.