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Stephanie Lopez

Stephanie Lopez held her first solo exhibition at Art Informal on November 2006.

For her second solo exhibition held at Boston Gallery (after Twilight in the Garden of Nyx), Stephanie Lopez combines second-hand materials and found objects in her sculptures and transforms the gallery space into a repository of vestigial images from her personal history.

The installations are stark portrayals of a girl's plight from the shelter of innocence into her coming of age and the sensual complexities of becoming a woman. There is an element of the post-fairytale in the artist's visual narrative; the awakening of Alice after Wonderland to a world of imperfections where a little girl's dream may be defiled, the excesses of emotions locked inside a pincushion or wrapped around a paperweight and where one's resolve may be found on an empty bed space where shadows meet.

Stephanie's works remind us that the imagination, as much as the real world, is a fertile but precarious region and that creativity is never passive and often very personal.

-Salvador Joel Alonday