Kandy G Lopez’s innovative fiber portraits combine confident, supremely stylish subjects with an intricate technique that inspires amazement, making them an immediate draw at Chelsea’s ACA Galleries. Taking her subjects from Instagram or personal encounters and working from photographs, Lopez crafts colorful, textured images from yarn, spray paint and hook mesh, creating almost abstract surfaces dense with material up close which resolve into crisp detail from a distance. Here, a man in a camo pattered outfit towers over visitors, his foot extending beyond the frame, a detail that Lopez has likened to paint dripping from a canvas. (On view in Chelsea through Jan 17th).
