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Portrait of Nicóla Lopez, pencil on paper, by Phong Bui. Courtesy of Phong Bui, 2009.
Portrait of Nicóla Lopez, pencil on paper, by Phong Bui. Courtesy of Phong Bui, 2009.
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Nicola López
Originally aired 5/29/09
Phong Bui interviews artist Nicola López, whose wide use of a tremendous variety of media - among them intaglio, woodblock, drawing, installation and collage - explores notions of landscape and geography. Her work blends the cartographic with the impressionistic, creating an experiential representation of where and how we live, of the tensions that undergird human societies and psyches (43 minutes).
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