Dulce Maria Lopez
Dulce María López is a Mexican rural immigrant artivist, a UC Berkeley alumni, and a UCLA grad student. Through her art, she develops political and social statements, connecting back to the issues of forced migration and U.S. imperialism. Dulce uses acrylics, guerrilla art techniques, and media to bring visibility to transnational social issues, represent (her)story and identity, and mobilize people. Dulce has showcased her artwork and collaborated across Northern and Central
América. She aspires to continue mobilizing through arts and build transnational platforms to make political art a sustainable and safe practice for historically oppressed communities.
WORKS
Las Guadalupes 18" x 24" - April 11, 2020 - Not for sale.
It is ironic that La Virgen de Guadalupe, a woman, stands as the most holy symbol in Mexico where every day, 10 self-identified women are killed, 18 disappeared, and more than 200 are assaulted. What kind of country are we raising when we inflict violence on those who care for us? I know nothing, but I if Guadalupe is protecting me and us, she is doing so with the collective rage in the protests–Guadalupe is all of us.
Nuestra América Original: 18" x 24" Print: 11" x 14" - October 10, 2022 - $60
“Nuestra America” (English, “Our America”) was born having as a background the struggle that is lived in the arid mountains of El Llano, my homeland, where I left my heart. Now, I return carrying solidarity from siblings from other territories in Latin America whose struggles are now also my own. This is how my healing from forced migration looks, demanding visibility to the only home I have where the living, the ancestors, and the mountains claim me as their own, and though we live through the systematic oppression of colonization and imperialism that is unfortunately lived in countless of other communities, we now know we are not alone and we are creating transnational movements.