A feature written by Maria Manuela for the July edition of New Mexico Magazine.

“Between the clay and the art, she says, her work looks forward and back. “It goes back to the family,” she says. “It’s a rebuilding of something and looking back toward memory or tradition or history. But at the same time, it builds toward something new or a healing.”    

At 28, with only four years of working in this medium under her palms, Keane Lopez has drawn national attention. 

She was recently featured in American Craft magazine and was chosen to show work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Arkansas, in an exhibit that featured 60 artists hailed by the museum as the future of contemporary art. The Harwood Art Center, in Albuquerque, holds one of her permanent installations.”