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Kandy G Lopez<\/a>\u2019s innovative fiber portraits combine confident, supremely stylish subjects with an intricate technique that inspires amazement, making them an immediate draw at Chelsea\u2019s ACA Galleries<\/a>.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Jan 17th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

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Kandy G Lopez, Isaiah Michael, yarn and spray paint on hook mesh, 103 \u00be x 60 \u00bc inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kandy G Lopez, (detail) Isaiah Michael, yarn and spray paint on hook mesh, 103 \u00be x 60 \u00bc inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kandy G Lopez\u2019s innovative fiber portraits combine confident, supremely stylish subjects with an intricate technique that inspires amazement, making them an immediate draw at Chelsea\u2019s ACA Galleries.\u00a0 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 … <\/p>\n

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