Candida Alvarez
Candida Alvarez (born 1955) is an American painter. She is a tenured professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1998.
Candida Alvarez was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. She earned a BFA from Fordham University, New York in 1977 and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1981. She earned her MFA from Yale University in 1997.
Alvarez is a painter known for her complex vibrantly layered combination of abstract and figurative forms rich in pop, historical and modern art references, incorporating world news and personal memories. Her works display a fascination with the aesthetics of cartoons, kitsch, and the hand-crafted.[1]
Alvarez's works have included sculptures, collages, abstraction and figuration, with materials as diverse as fabric, acrylic paint, enamel, galkyd, on various supports from canvas to cotton napkins and vellum.[2] In mambomountain, presented from December 2, 2012 to March 24, 2013 at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Alvarez's brightly colored paintings offer distortions of the familiar. Her paintings employ silhouettes and patterns of bold colors. In these works one can trace "current and historic moments and identities are fused together onto the canvas, producing a hybrid state of uncharted territory".[3]
In an interview published by Hyde Park Art Center she states: “Having run away from seemingly inadequate definitions for abstract painting, I find myself immersed in a relationship that tracks, exchanges, and shreds the world of news, front-page photography, design, and pictorial memory into a subject-less pictorial mash-up. In essence, there is no more picture; there is only painting.”
Other well-known works by Alvarez include Recollections: Works on Paper by Candida Alvarez & Vincent D. Smith presented at the Brooklyn Museum in 1979.[4]
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2003 Paradise, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 I Will Always Remember You, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
- 1996 New/Now, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
- 1993 Polyptychs, June Kelly Gallery, NY; catalogue, Paintings: 1990-1992, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
- 1992 Recent Paintings, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
- 1991 Paintings and Works on Paper, The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
- 1990 John Street Series, Galerie Schneiderei, Cologne, Germany; catalogue
- 1989 Paintings and Drawings, June Kelly Gallery, NY
- 1985 Exit Art, The First World, NY
- 1983 The Hybrid Series, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Cows and Other Things, The Cayman Gallery, NYC
Selected group exhibitions
- 2007 The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo (curated by James Yood)
- 2006 Black Now, Longwood Arts Project, Bronx; organized by Fred Wilson;
- Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
- Bronx Bound, Lehman College Art Gallery, NYC;
- TakeOver, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL;
- 2005 All the Things We Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL;
- 2004 Yard Sale, Track House, Chicago, IL;
- 2003 Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (July 17 - August 16);
- Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX;
- 2001 Talking to Myself, Cultural Fantasy and Domestic Conditions, Porter-Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA;
- 2000 Words-Objects-Acts, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia; catalogue;
- Out of Line; Drawings by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL;
- Snapshot: An Exhibition of Snapshots Portraying Intimate or Family Photos, Contemporary Museum, Balatimore, MD[5]
Concurrent Position: Founding Director SubCity Projects. Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University; Rena Bransten, San Francisco; June Kelly, New York; Queens Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Bronx Museum; High Museum, Atlanta; Exit Art, New York. Bibliography: Time Out; Art in America; Art News; New York Times; Village Voice. Collections: Addison Gallery; Whitney Museum; Studio Museum; El Museo Del Barrio; Brandywine Workshop; Bellevue Hospital; Cumberland Hospital; Stroger Hospital. Residencies: Skowhegan; Ragdale; PS-1. Awards: Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts.[6]
References
- ↑ "Interview: Candida Alvarez". Retrieved August 2, 2014.
- ↑ "Candida Alvarez". Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Cándida Alvarez: mambomountain". Hyde Park Art Center. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Exhibitions: Recollections: Works on Paper by Candida Alvarez & Vincent D. Smith". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Candida Alvarez mambomountain". Retrieved March 7, 2015.
- ↑ "Candida Alvarez Faculty Profile". http://www.saic.edu/index.html. Retrieved March 7, 2015. External link in
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