Lindsay Lopez (b. 2005) is a Bay Area artist. Since joining NIAD Art Center in 2025, she has focused on creating paintings, fiber art, and mixed media works on paper.
Many of her drawings are text-based, and feature clusters of words in various fonts: rhyming couplets, echoes, onomatopoeia, jumbled strings of letters, and snippets of more linear stories. Though the symbols look printed, Lopez is in fact using a hand-transfer technique that involves rubbing individual characters from vintage Letraset sheets. The resulting compositions capture both the humor of these constraints and the musicality of spoken word poetry.
Lopez trusts her subconscious to guide her process, explaining, “The words just come to me, to my mind.” She has likewise spontaneously sourced material from conversations with colleagues in NIAD’s communal studio: “I wrote the letters of their names, and all of the sounds that I heard.”
Other recent works include drawn symbols and logos to be read alongside or in lieu of words. These illustrated scenes describe Lopez’s memories, dreams, and current events.
Lindsay Lopez’s work has been featured in open studio events at NIAD in Richmond, CA.
