Francisco Lopez (b. 1974, Miami) is an artist, designer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and in 1995, he moved to Boston where he graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in...
Read MoreFrancisco Lopez (b. 1974, Miami) is an artist, designer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He grew up in Caracas, Venezuela and in 1995, he moved to Boston where he graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in 1999. Soon after, he was a jury member at the Trieste Film Festival (2001--2004). In 2004 he founded the Internationally Renown and multidisciplinary creative studio Mogollon in New York City. Mogollon have created work for both art and commerce, experimenting with virtually every media.
He has produced and exhibit work for renown institutions and personalities such as PS1 MOMA, The Drawing Center, Centre Pompidou, Ferran Adria, ElBulli Foundation, Ellen Berkenblit, Madonna, Alicia Keys, MAD Museum, Diesel Denim Gallery in Tokyo, National Sawdust, Metropolitan Opera, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Phillip Glass, American Ballet Theater, The Wooster Group and Terry Riley.
In 2017, Francisco was invited by MINI A/D/O to be part of a small selected group of seven architects, designers and artists to explore new possibilities in products, objects, and fabrication. A design collective where physical prototyping, interdisciplinary experimentation, and community collaboration intersect.
Since his residency at A/D/O, he had been working with shapes of Sea Debris and other forms manipulated by man through history. He called this process NeoPrimalism. He had trace thousands of forms, creating an visual alphabet or palette that he uses and combines without expectations or pre formulated ideas of what the outcome should be.
