{"title":"*Richie Wilde López*","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0179\/6929\/files\/Artist_Headshot_Richie_Wilde_Lopez_Photo_courtesy_of_the_artist_c97558ce-ff7c-47e3-a01f-fddd99ea455c_240x240.jpg?v=1788494555\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichie Wilde López is a queer Puerto Rican textile artist based in Philadelphia. Self-taught, his practice has developed through sustained studio experimentation, personal research, and material inquiry rather than traditional academic training.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking primarily through weaving and embroidery, López investigates how textiles hold memory, lived experience, and the passage of time. His work considers preservation as a way of understanding how history, family, and cultural experience continue to exist within the present. The home, domestic labor, and the influence of the women who shaped his life remain recurring points of reference, embedded within both material and process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncreasingly, López is interested in moving beyond memory alone toward presence. Rather than looking only at what has already been lived, his work asks what it means to remain with an experience as it is happening. He explores how making can become a form of sustained attention, allowing emotion, perception, and bodily experience to exist with\u003cspan\u003eout immediate resolution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside his studio practice, López develops and facilitates textile-based workshops and community programs that center accessible making and collective engagement with textile traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease email info@paradigm-gallery.com to request to be added to Richie Wilde López's digital collector preview list for all of his upcoming projects and exhibitions. You may also submit your request\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/paradigm-gallery\/richie-wilde-lopez\" title=\"Richie Wilde López Collector Preview\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/paradigm-gallery\/catalina-escallon-rosselli\" title=\"Catalina Escallón Rosselli Collector Preview\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichie Wilde López's debut collection will be available for purchase below in September 2026.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.paradigmarts.org\/blogs\/news\/tending-to-clouds\" title=\"Tending to Clouds\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRead the press release here.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0179\/6929\/collections\/Richie-Collection.jpg?v=1788494348","url":"https:\/\/www.paradigmarts.org\/collections\/richie-wilde-lopez.oembed","provider":"Paradigm Gallery + Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}