Originally from Central Washington (Yakima to be exact), Renée Lopez moved to Portland in 2006 to get a fresh start. In 2015, Miss Lopez became involved in the Black Lives Matter movement, making good friends with Portland rapper Glenn Waco. This marked a shift from taking photographs as a hobby to using her camera as a tool of resistance, documenting injustices, the Black Lives Matter movement, and Portland’s hip hop scene. In her recent work, Women of Color in PDX, she focuses on Portland-based women of color, promoting self-love and unity while pushing back on internalized misogyny through portraiture and story sharing. Miss Lopez has been told she has an eye for truly capturing people and who they are. “I just want to make a difference in someone’s life with my work, help people, tell their story.”
In this Artist Talk, Miss Lopez discusses her work and how it relates to “Untitled” by Philip Guston. See it in our Online Collections here: http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=29321;type=101
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