dani lopez: Three Dykes Walk into a Bar ... @ Richmond Art Center
Join artist dani lopez for a conversation with Elena Gross about her creative practice and solo exhibition, 3 Dykes Walk into a Bar…
3 Dykes Walk into a Bar…, a solo exhibition by dani lopez, presents a series of “tapestry stills” introducing three young dykes coming of age from the 1990s to the present. These visual excerpts from the characters’ lives, accompanied by sculptural elements and found objects, create an intimate space where fragments of queer memory, identity, and joy come together to tell a collective story.
About the Artist: dani lopez is a textile artist working within weaving, embroidery, and textile sculpture to explore queer desire, non-linear narratives, disidentifications, and femme identity. She received her MFA in Textiles from CCA. She has been featured in Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, and Other People’s Pixels. lopez has shown at Bedford Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, Bass & Reiner, and the Frank Ratchye Project Space. In 2022, she received the Money For Women Grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and a Puffin Grant for her project “3 Dykes Walk Into a Bar…”. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Richmond Art Center. lopez is a Lucas Visual Art Fellow at Montalvo Art Center, 2023-2026. After spending most of her life in Oregon and trying to escape, she now lives in Oakland with her partner and their cat Spooky.
Elena Gross (she/they) is the Director of Exhibitions & Public Programs at the GLBT Historical Society and an independent writer and curator living in Oakland, CA. She received an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts in 2016, and her BA in Art History and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2012. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Elena was formerly the creator and co-host of the arts & visual culture podcast what are you looking at? published by Art Practical. Her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists and most recently in queer artistic and literary histories of the late 20th century. She has presented her writing and research at institutions and conferences across the U.S. Her most recent writing can be found in the publication Blood Sweat & Time: Emerging Perspectives on Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell (Sming Sming Books). Elena is the co-editor, along with Julie R. Enszer, of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (Rutgers University Press), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthologies.