Visiting Artist Program Grant

THIS JUNE, artist Nicola López will install Haunted in the Albuquerque Museum lobby as part of the annual Visiting Artist program. López’s works reflect how nature has been marked by human actions: López writes, “Haunted is a site-responsive installation created for the lobby of the Albuquerque Museum that reflects on how all landscapes are now and forever haunted by our inescapable, human presence.” The collaged, printed, and hand-drawn elements will be installed directly on the walls to create a hybrid landscape connecting geologic and human built features.

López will be the first visiting artist to receive funds from a grant the Museum received from the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, to help pay for materials, to support installation costs, to cover lodging costs and to pay the artists a per diem. All visiting artists receive a moderate stipend, housing if necessary, and installation support. With this funding, the Visiting Artist program also offers more interaction with the artists, docent training, and Third Thursday programming. Since 2011, the program has featured contemporary artists—both well established and emerging—with a connection to New Mexico. Among those featured have been Gronk, Virgil Ortiz, Ernest Doty, Paul Sarkisian, Karl Hofmann, and others. The annual program provides an invited artist the opportunity to reimagine and activate the Museum’s lobby, and

some create works specifically for the space. The program includes the display of the artist’s work for one year, public engagement, and artist talks.

Above: Nicola López, Parasites, Prosthetics, Parallels, and Partners, No. 8, 2017, lithography on mylar and collage, 65”x45”, published by Tamarind Institute.

Left: Nicola López, Parasites, Prosthetics, Parallels, and Partners, No. 7 2017, lithography on mylar and collage, 65”x45”, published by Tamarind Institute.

The program aims to provide a bridge between the artistic practice of the visiting artist and the public experience of contemporary art.