Michelle Lopez

Michelle Lopez (born 1970 in Bridgeport, CT, of Filipino descent) is an American sculptor and installation artist, whose work incorporates divergent industrial materials to critique present day cultural phenomena.

[2] Lopez first gained critical attention with her sculpture Boy; a leather covered Honda that made its debut in 2000 as part of MoMA / PS1's Greater New York exhibition.

The suggestion that attempts at formal perfection are necessarily doomed to failure is clear, but in their fun-house-mirror distortions, these works direct that argument at not only artistic folly but also the viewer’s own vanities and imperfections.

"[4] In her Smoke Clouds work, Lopez explores themes of disappearance through the shifting image within the material of silver nitrate (mirroring solution) poured onto large-scale architectural glass.

Reflecting the current social and political climate, a recent work shown in Ballast & Barricades suspends a thousand-pound building fragment by using remnants of cultural signifiers such as scaffolding for falling and climbing ladders as counter weight, creating a state on the verge of collapse.

Writing on Lopez's 2023 solo exhibition 'Lasso Reprieve' with Commonwealth and Council LA, critic Vanessa Holyoak writes for Artforum: "Five pieces from the series “ROPE PROP REVERSAL,” 2023, build on Lopez’s long-term engagement with feminist subversions of Minimalism and abstraction, deconstructing the movements’ pretensions of monumentality and universality by restoring an unwieldy humility to the industrial materials that she manipulates.