艺术家声明
我是一位视觉艺术家，在绘画、壁画创作及插画领域工作。我的许多作品都源于我作为一位生活在波士顿的非裔加勒比女性的经历。在多米尼加共和国的成长经历激发了我对大胆色彩的喜爱，并且使我关注我们的环境如何塑造我们的个性。我的艺术实践的核心是希望通过我的作品为所在之处带来喜悦、联系和自主。

作为一名壁画艺术家，我的创作过程始于理解地点的背景及其与公众互动的方式。我希望我的作品易于接近并容易理解。我的风格充满活力，将鲜艳的色彩与图形元素层层叠加，并与写实的焦点区域相结合。内容通常通过集体、以社区为基础的共同设计和空间重构来确定，这是我社会实践中的一部分。

我的工作室工作为我提供了玩耍和实验的空间，让我能够向内探索，寻求平衡并创作个人作品。

简介
Silvia López Chavez是一位多米尼加裔美国艺术家，她的以社区为中心的壁画跨越学科和文化界限建立了连接。她通过充满活力的壁画使用喜悦作为一种抵抗和庆祝的形式，她的作品通过尊重一个地方及其人民的身份来转变城市空间。

2023年，西尔维娅获得了马萨诸塞艺术学院的公共利益奖、波士顿基金会的托马斯兄弟奖学金以及Amplify Latinx 100奖。她是伊莎贝拉·斯图尔特·加德纳博物馆的一位沙龙名人，并于2021年因公共艺术领导力奖项而受到新英格兰艺术机构的表彰。她最近完成了在马萨诸塞州当代艺术博物馆（Mass MoCa）、海斯泰克（Haystack）和佛蒙特工作室中心的驻地项目。她的委托作品包括位于北京的中国美国大使馆、加州的谷歌总部、皮博迪埃塞克斯博物馆、波士顿SeaWalls项目、麻省理工学院、哈佛大学和东北大学等。西尔维娅毕业于马萨诸塞艺术与设计学院和多米尼加共和国的阿尔托斯德查翁学院。西尔维娅目前在东波士顿的大西洋工作室继续她的艺术实践。

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Artist Statement
I am a visual artist working in painting， mural-making, and illustration. Much of my work is framed by my experience as an Afro-Caribbean woman living and working in Boston. Growing up in the Dominican Republic fed my appetite for bold color palettes and my interest in how our environment influences who we become. At the core of my practice is a desire to bring joy, connection, and agency to the places where my work lives.

As a muralist, my process is fueled by understanding a sites context and its relationship to how the public engages with that space. I strive for my work to be approachable and easily understood. My style is energetic, layering bright colors and graphic elements with realistically rendered focal areas. Content is often determined through a collective, neighborhood-based co-designing and re-envisioning space, which I consider part of my social practice.

My studio work provides a space for play and experimentation, allowing me to look inward to bring balance and create personal work.

Bio
Silvia López Chavez is a Dominican-American artist whose community-centered murals form connections across disciplines and cultural boundaries. She uses joy as an act of resistance and celebration through her vibrant murals, and her work transforms urban spaces by honoring the identity of a place and its people.

In 2023 Silvia received the Common Good Awards from MassArt, The Boston Foundation’s Brother Thomas Fellowship award and Amplify Latinx 100 award. Silvia is a Salon Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and honored with a Leadership in Public Art Award by New England for the Arts in 2021. She recently completed art residencies at Mass MoCa, Haystack and Vermont Studio Center Commissions include the U.S. Chinese Embassy in Beijing, Google HQ in California, Peabody Essex Museum, SeaWalls Boston, MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern Universities. Silvia is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art & Design amd Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic. Silvia continues her studio practice at Atlantic Works Artist Studios in East Boston.

Resume available upon request.
Instagram: @silvialopezchavez
LinkedIn: @SilviaLopezChavez