Carla Lopez grew up in France and is currently based in Albuquerque, NM on Tiwa Land where she is attending the MFA program at the University of New Mexico. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute and her MS in Art Therapy from Florida State University. In addition to being an artist, Carla is an art therapist and professional counselor. Influenced by her career in mental health and a lifelong fascination for psychology, she explores notions of suffering and healing in drawings, paintings mixed media works. Most recently, Carla has been using a spectral framework to make drawings of psychological spaces that invoke and confront ghosts of immigration, trauma, and secrets in her family and her life. The temporal power of specters allows her to recover the complexity of her intersectional identities and to explore remembrance without getting trapped in the past.

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Contact: carlaclymo@gmail.com

IG: @carlasephora

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