June 16 – July 2
A Tribute to Ed Lopez, Curated by Penny Ross
Opening Reception: Friday, June 16 from 7-9pm
Our second show this season will be a show of the work of Ed Lopez.
We were very happy when we approached Ed last summer to invite him to show this season and he readily agreed. So it is with great sadness that I have to share with those who may not know that Ed passed away in January after a brief illness.
We have decided to proceed with a tribute show that will be curated by, and feature the work in the collection of Penny Ross. Penny has been a close friend of Ed’s for over 45 years and an avid collector of his work since she bought her first piece in the 1970s.
Ed Lopez epitomized the ideal of the artist unbent by commercial pressure. He left a lucrative career as a graphic designer in NYC to pursue art full time, living out of his van for one 10 year stretch; in Florida in the winter and in the Poconos in the summer.
He is well known for unfolding brown paper grocery bags and painting on those. But don’t be fooled by those modest means. Ed was a sure-handed draftsman of the first rank and a bold and decisive colorist, one of the finest artists to ever work in the Poconos.
He will be missed, and we are honored to be showing his work.