Nationality American Known for Chicana Art | Name Cecilia Alvarez Role Colombian Politician | |
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Born April 15, 1950 (age 74) ( 1950-04-15 ) San Diego, California Notable work Las Cuatas Diego, 1979La Tierra Santa, 1983Si Te Puede Pasar a Ti, 1992 Style Her oil paintings and murals depict themes of feminism, poverty, and environmental degradation in the United States and Latin America. Education Pontifical Xavierian University Similar Akiane Kramarik, Lyndall Bass, Marla Olmstead Profiles | ||
Foro América - Cecilia Álvarez Correa, Ministra de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia
Cecilia Alvarez (born April 15, 1950) is American Chicana artist known for her oil paintings and murals depicting themes of feminism, poverty, and environmental degradation in the United States and Latin America. Alvarez's painting Las Cuatas Diego has been featured in books and exhibitions around the world. Alvarez has also illustrated the bilingual children's book Antonio's Card authored by Rigoberto González. Her work is collected by the Mexican Fine Arts Museum, the Seattle Art Museum and by the Kaiser Foundation.
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- Foro Amrica Cecilia lvarez Correa Ministra de Comercio Industria y Turismo de Colombia
- Fiscal ad hoc pide desarchivar investigacin contra Gina Parody y Cecilia lvarez Noticias Caracol
- Biography
- Art
- Notable works
- References
Fiscal ad hoc pide desarchivar investigación contra Gina Parody y Cecilia Álvarez | Noticias Caracol
Biography
Alvarez was born in San Diego, California to a Cuban father and a Mexican mother. She was raised by both of her parents in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico.
Alvarez is a self-taught artist. Alvarez started studying at San Diego State University, however, she did not complete her education because she felt that it wasn't necessary. She had been told by faculty that because she was a Mexican-American woman, her work would never be considered "fine art." Alvarez began to help her family financially at the age of twenty-three, after leaving college.
In 1975 Alvarez moved to Washington state where she has created the majority of her artwork.
From 1978 to 1981, she attended Eastern Washington University.
She currently resides and works in Seattle, Washington with her husband and two children.
Art
Alvarez is primarily a painter, but she has worked on large public artwork and on helping youth to create murals to raise cultural awareness. Alvarez uses personal imagery in her art in order to critique issues that are politically and culturally important to her. She has stated that she hopes to "create discourse through her art, on issues of entitlement, poverty and who is expendable in our collective." Alvarez attempts to redefine the cultural values assigned to women and the concept of family using her art. Her duality as a woman and Chicana define he art as she states, "how we fit into the universe, telling jokes, music, laying tile, whatever it was that evolved that whole ability to think of our humanity." In 1991, Alvarez gifted a color print of her painting "Las Cuatas Diego" to The Mexican Museum's permanent collection located in San Francisco.