Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”

CONTENTS

C O N T E N T S List of Images ix Acknowledgments xi 1 0. Our Lady of Controversy: A Subject That Needs No Introduction Alicia Gaspar de Alba 13 1. The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) Alma López 17 2. It’s Not about the Art in the Folk, It’s about the Folks in the Art: A Curator’s Tale Tey Marianna Nunn 43 3. The War of the Roses: Guadalupe, Alma López, and Santa Fe Kathleen FitzCallaghan Jones 69 4. Making Privates Public: It’s Not about La Virgen of the Conquest, but about the Conquest of La Virgen Deena J. González 96 5. Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López Luz Calvo 121 6. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Consciousness in Alma López’s Visual Art Clara Román-Odio 148 7. The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site: It’s Not about the Gender in My Nation, It’s about the Nation in My Gender Emma Pérez 165 8. It’s Not about the Virgins in My Life, It’s about the Life in My Virgins Cristina Serna O u r L a d y o f C o n t r o v e r s y viii 195 9. Do U Think I’m a Nasty Girl? Catrióna Rueda Esquibel 212 10. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Second Coming of Our Lady in Santa Fe Alicia Gaspar de Alba 249 11. It’s Not about the Santa in My Fe, but the Santa Fe in My Santa Alma López Appendix: Selected Viewer Comments 293 About the Contributors 311 Index 315 ...