The Almost Real History of Art in Phoenix (La casi verdadera historia del arte en Phoenix)

Annie Lopez, American, born 1958

2007

cyanotype

Museum purchase with funds provided by Eva and Eric Jungermann Family Endowment

2012.134.1

Contemporary

No

Annie Lopez’s photo and text-based cyanotype prints are made by exposing prepared paper directly to the noon day sun. As a fourth generation Phoenician, Lopez’s work is inspired by her family’s history and her own experiences as a Chicana. For seventeen years, she was an active member of MARS (Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado) – an artist cooperative made up of mostly Hispanic members with the goal of showcasing underrepresented Latino artists around the Southwest. The Almost Real History of Art in Phoenix is a pointed and disarmingly witty institutional critique, illustrating the sometimes contradictory realities of being an artist in the Valley of the Sun.