Angie Lopez

Angie Lopez is a second-year PhD student in History of Art engaging in work addressing the changing conceptions of matter and materiality in Western late medieval Christian devotional objects and imagery and queer cultural production during the AIDS Crisis. They do so through a historical interest in changing conceptions of the body (as it pertains to periods of wide-spread disease and fear of decay) and with an attention to the varying resulting theological investments in artistic materiality. Methodologically, they invest in notions of queer and cross-temporality as well as object performativity and animacy.

 

They are the current Yale University Art Gallery Rose Herrick Jackson Curatorial Intern. They received their B.A. in Art History (with a minor in French) from Stanford University, where they completed a thesis entitled ‘In a Queer Time and Spirit: The Cross-Temporality and Mysticism of Georgiana Houghton’s Spirit Drawings’. They have worked for the Cantor Arts Center, The Anderson Collection, and the Cluny Museum - National Museum of the Middle Ages.