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Candida alvarez at the hyde park art center
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.
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- Candida alvarez at the hyde park art center
- Early life and education
- Career
- Selected solo exhibitions
- Selected group exhibitions
- Collections
- References
Early life and education
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 School of Art in 1997, and studied at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee Switzerland from 2010-2012.
Career
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.
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. 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".
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.