The figures that inhabit my worlds on canvas or wood are a culmination of muted strangers present in the media as some reporter tells their stories of pain, love, war and survival. These are not new stories; Paleolithic drawings have shown us joy and hardship. And today, the graffiti and street artists are making sure to document our lives today with the same intensity of any scholar. Now, I am not necessarily a political artist, but from time to time my intuitive doodles haven take on the atmosphere of war. Mostly I enjoy creating lofty cityscapes inhabited by oddly shaped dogs and strange beings. My inspiration comes from all sorts of media and realities, but my greatest teachers came from books bearing the names of Miro, Basquiat, Rauschenberg, Carlos Alfonzo, and Jean Dubuffet.
Julie Lopez
