Abelardo Lopez Mexican, b. 1957

Abelardo López studied at the School of Fine Arts, Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca, as well as in the Rufino Tamayo Plastic Arts Workshop. López focuses on the elements of nature in his paintings, yet he transforms the genre by pushing the medium of painting itself with his signature style of carved impasto.

Through the trained eyes of Abelardo López, we learn that at a certain time of day the mountains of his native Oaxaca are blue, like the subtle blues of his watery horizons. The agave plants take on infinite shades of green in these odes to the epic landscapes of south Yagul, with its corn stalks, now upright, now wilted, finally inviting us to lose ourselves in the endless horizon that the artist paints with a nostalgic mixture of love and pain. Abelardo spurs our imagination and in doing so forces us to see what lies beneath the surface, invisible to the naked eye.

López has exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Italy, and his work forms part of the collections of the Treasury Department (SHCP), the Mexican Language Academy, and the ABC medical center in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City. His paintings are also part of the Oaxaca State Government Art Gallery and the Oaxaca International Airport, the Rayo Roldanillo Museum in Colombia, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C., and The University of Texas at San Antonio.