Kelvin Lopez is a Chicano printmaker based in San Diego, California. His current body of work challenges the traditional perspective of the customary materialization of a print by merging the boundaries of printmaking, Mexican textiles, his relationship/ involvements with nature, gardens, and his personal cultural background.

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Kelvin creates “contemporary servilletas” by adding embroidery and crochet borders onto his monotypes. These mixed media prints were inspired by his aunt mama-Mari, who he spent two months with in Oaxaca, Mexico. This work represents his devotion to represent the cultural significance within his work via printmaking.

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Some of the imagery included in his work take the forms of flora and fauna, abstract textures, Mixtec rulers from the Oaxacan Mixteca region, and more.

"Bromancia", 2024