Our Lady by Alma Lopez

Isn't this beautiful?

From Alma Lopez's interesting website:

The "Our Lady" print was in an exhibition titled CyberArte: Tradition Meets Technology curated by Tey Marianna Nunn at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Soon after the opening reception on February 25, 2001, protests against the print began. CyberArte closed as originally scheduled that same year on October 28.

Bikini-clad Madonna can stay - BBC

A controversial portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe wearing a floral bikini will remain on show after a US court refused to order a gallery to take it down. Protesters had said the digital image of Mexico's national representation of the Virgin Mary was offensive and insensitive after it went on show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in February. But a judge has decided that the city's Museum of International Folk Art can keep the picture, by Mexican-born Alma Lopez, on its walls because of a legal technicality. ... Ms Lopez defended her work, saying she intended Our Lady to show a strong and beautiful woman.

A bit from Alma's bio on her site:
Alma Lopez is an artist, activist and visual storyteller working in painting, photo based digital prints, and video. She is internationally recognized for her innovative digital images, which recontextualize cultural icons bringing issues of race, gender and sexuality into relationship with transnationalist myths.

...She has several other interesting projects on her site, including art of a Mary figure intimate with a mermaid, and a video on women wearing butch haircuts, called Boi Hair.

1 comment:

The Mighty Kat said...

I like the quotes section on your martial arts site.