September 25, 5:30 p.m. PAC 134, Hopper Visiting Artist Lecture and exhibition 'Between Frequencies' by Linda Lopez and Mathew McConnell

Announced on: Tuesday, Sept. 09, 2025

Join us for a Hopper Visiting Artist Lecture by ceramics Linda Lopez (CSU Chico alum) and Mathew McConnell on Thursday September 25, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. in PAC 134. An opening reception for Lopez and McConnell's Between Frequencies exhibition (on view September 23 - November 15) will follow in the A Gallery (ARTS 122). These events are free and open to the public.

This lecture and exhibition is made possible by generous support from David Hopper, Shari Maxson Hopper, and the University Foundation Governor's Award.

Linda Nguyen Lopez is a first-generation American artist of Vietnamese and Mexican descent. Her abstract works explore the poetic potential of the everyday by imagining and articulating a vast emotional range embedded in the mundane objects that surround us. Her works have been exhibited in Italy, New Zealand, England, France, South Korea and throughout the United States including the Renwick Gallery at Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; Springfield Art Museum; The Hole, New York; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami; David B. Smith Gallery, Denver; and the Museum of Art and Design, New York. Lopez was awarded the United States Artist Fellowship in 2024. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Mathew McConnell holds an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a BFA from Valdosa State University in Georgia. He has held numerous solo exhibitions including at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami and the Jane Artsook Gallery at Greenwich House Potters in NYC. His works have been included in over 80 group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Mathew has lectured widely, and has been subject of feature-length articles in Ceramics Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, and New Ceramics. He has received an Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education in Ceramic Art, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation, Greenwich House Pottery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and CRETA Rome. He serves as an Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Arkansas.

For additional information (including people who need special accommodations or who have questions about physical access), please contact emacdonald1@csuchico.edu, 530-898-5331, in advance of the event.