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Artist: Guarina Paloma Lopez
Artwork Title: ‘Night Forest of My Dreams’
Year: 2024
Medium: Painting
Materials: Acrylic paint on skateboard deck
Dimensions: 31” x 7.5”
Artist Bio:
Guarina Lopez is a visual artist and storyteller with deep roots in the Mission District of San Francisco and Barrio Viejo in Tucson, Arizona. Her work explores the intersections of Indigeneity, environment, politics, and culture. Her love of art began in childhood with drawing and painting, and eventually blossomed into storytelling through photography and film. She spent the better part of three decades behind the camera as a photographer, photo assistant, professional printer, historian, archivist, and instructor. She is the co-director of the micro-doc Running is Prayer and Carlisle 200, a documentary that shares the history of Native Boarding Schools. Guarina’s writing has been published in magazines, poetry reviews, museum journals, and zines. She was also nominated (but not chosen) for the Sundance Screenwriters lab for her screenplay, An American Indian in Paris. Guarina is currently working on her memoir, La Penumbra, which traces her journey from the streets of San Francisco to the desert landscape of Tucson and the mountains of Northern New Mexico.
Artist: Guarina Paloma Lopez
Artwork Title: ‘Night Forest of My Dreams’
Year: 2024
Medium: Painting
Materials: Acrylic paint on skateboard deck
Dimensions: 31” x 7.5”
Artist Bio:
Guarina Lopez is a visual artist and storyteller with deep roots in the Mission District of San Francisco and Barrio Viejo in Tucson, Arizona. Her work explores the intersections of Indigeneity, environment, politics, and culture. Her love of art began in childhood with drawing and painting, and eventually blossomed into storytelling through photography and film. She spent the better part of three decades behind the camera as a photographer, photo assistant, professional printer, historian, archivist, and instructor. She is the co-director of the micro-doc Running is Prayer and Carlisle 200, a documentary that shares the history of Native Boarding Schools. Guarina’s writing has been published in magazines, poetry reviews, museum journals, and zines. She was also nominated (but not chosen) for the Sundance Screenwriters lab for her screenplay, An American Indian in Paris. Guarina is currently working on her memoir, La Penumbra, which traces her journey from the streets of San Francisco to the desert landscape of Tucson and the mountains of Northern New Mexico.