Santa Fe-based artist Nicola López channels her transdisciplinary interests in urban planning, architecture, and anthropology into a multimedia practice spanning drawing, printmaking, installation, and hand-drawn animated video. López interjects and interacts with the photographed natural environment, layering upon these images a geometric, structural landscape of her imagination. The hollow contours of oil pumping rigs sprout from the branches of a tree, arachnid clusters amble along the horizon like tumbleweeds, a hollow vessel encloses the glow of the sun like a lantern. López invites her viewers into a complex, composite world, prompting us to question the nature of the manufactured world we ordinarily occupy while also illuminating the points of union that exist between the natural and constructed worlds
