Textile Truths: Faces of Resilience

In Textile Truths: Faces of Resilience, Afro-Caribbean American artist Kandy G. Lopez unveils a new body of work that explores the intimate connection between textiles and cultural identity. Spanning from large-scale multi-figure compositions like City Girls and City Boys to individual portraits, Lopez uses woven fiber as a language of dignity, solidarity and visibility. The exhibition frames textiles as both repository and visual archive of resilience, strength and collective memory. With precise technique and layered symbolism, Lopez blurs the boundaries between painting and craft to reclaim and celebrate the presence of communities historically overlooked in contemporary art.