NIcole Parente-Lopez

Nicole Parente-Lopez (b. 1974) is a Honolulu-based visual artist whose charcoal drawings and video isolate volcanic stone and natural materials as meditative studies in transformation. Before turning to full-time studio work, she spent more than two decades as a designer and executive creative director (most recently at Intuit), a background that informs the quiet clarity and site-responsiveness of her practice.

Approach. Working primarily from volcanic forms, Parente-Lopez emphasizes attention, reverence, and perceptual intimacy — “the tension between what endures and what evolves.” She isolates the form of a single stone, rendering it as both object and field, and proposes a slow viewing experience in which stillness becomes a radical act of presence.

Selected works & exhibitions. Veneration of Stone (2025, Arts & Letters Gallery, Honolulu); 36 Views of Mauna Loa (2026, East Hawaii Cultural Center); Storied Ground (2026, Kahilu). She showed with Ontopo at the Arrival Art Fair, North Adams (2025).

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