AP Art Studio

Investigation theme: Women Oppression Throughout History

To blend, I used a small round brush and blended the gray with the dark "black."This artwork is supposed to represent women oppression. The theme/title of the piece is supposed to symbolize that women are silenced, unheard, and unseen. I want my audience to think about the fight women are still putting up with to this day. The most difficult thing to me was finding a dark color close to black using the limited colors I had. If I started over I would change the color palette of the piece. This style of art to me is abstract. I think it makes it unique to me because it fits my aesthetic. The theme of it and the overall message makes it my own style. Something I like about it is the brightness of the red. I think the contrast between the colors really emphasizes the message.

Marisa Lopez "Hear no, See no, Speak no”

Size, Acrylic Paint on Canvas, 2022

The idea I thought of stemmed from the saying "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil." I remember seeing a ceramic statue with a similar concept that inspired me to make a painting. I mainly used acrylic paint. I created this piece over the summer at my art residency and we were only given 7 colors. There was no black so I had to mix my own. I had to mix many colors and use many techniques to create a cool colored black which was quite difficult.

Marisa Lopez "A Walk Through Time”

Size, Mixed Media/Collage (Magazine Clippings, Beads, Construction Paper, Colored Pencils, Oil Pastels, Scratch Art), 2022

My idea was to make a collage of 3 different women from different time periods walking. In the background, I wanted to have events going on during those time periods so it would represent a walk through time. I wanted the events in the background to kind of relate to womens rights. A tool I used was a scratcher to create the scratch art but also the technique of piling. The artwork is supposed to symbolize different current events through different time periods and show how women's rights have changed over time and what we are still fighting for. Some symbolic imagery I have represented is the clothing or silhouettes of the women. Their clothing is supposed to relate to the time period in which the events are (Renaissance, 1920s, modern-day). Something difficult for me was making the figures stick out from the background. A way I overcame this was by adding scratch art behind the figures. To me, this piece is surreal/abstract. I love the look of it. I think it is all pieced together.

Marisa Lopez "Distorted"

Size, Mixed Media/Painting (Acrylic Paint, Plaster), 2022

My idea was to kind of create a 3D-ish painting that makes people uncomfortable. I got this idea from an artwork I saw where a mask was coming out of the painting. I wanted to represent beauty in a way of distortion/symmetry. In the beauty world, face symmetry is heavily valued and I wanted to mock that by creating one side smooth and the other rough. I plastered the white strands onto a premade plastic mask. I hot-glued it on the canvas and then painted the silhouette and lines with black/red paint. I want my audience to feel weird and uncomfortable when looking at the piece. I want this because symmetry and perfection are scary. People making others think they need symmetry to be beautiful is disgusting so I wanted to make a piece that makes you feel gross. What was difficult for me was keeping the mask together. Because this method is new to me it was difficult to use which made it hard to keep together. This piece is abstract. Obviously, this isn't a piece of the quality I wanted so I may not include it in my 15 works or just remake it.

If I have time, I would like to rework this!

Marisa Lopez "Wall of Power"

Size, Mixed Media (Acrylic Paint, Charcoal), 2023

My idea is based on a museum/art gallery. There are portraits of famous figures across the wall. All of these people are feminist figures throughout time and of different races. The last image is a mirror that acts as a reflection to show the viewer they can be the next powerful figure in today's century. For reference the final work is at the bottom. Figures are as followed (Left - Anna Filosofova, John Stuart Mill, Marsha P Johnson, Malala)

Marisa Lopez "Shocked Girl"

9x12, scratch art, 2023

I made this image a few years ago. I really want to rework it so I can fit it into my portfolio this year. I want it to allude to to pop art artists but also the 60s where it was a huge breakthrough in time for women. My inspiration is Roy Litchenstein and crying girl because it represented the hard things women went through in that period of time. I hope to rework this to help capture that emotion and point in time. I will rework this one!