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Candida Alvarez

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Candida Alvarez
human
Ein sex anaa genderfemale Edit
Country wey e be citizenUnited States Edit
Name in native languageCandida Alvare Edit
Name wey dem give amCandida Edit
Family nameAlvarez Edit
Ein date of birth2 February 1955 Edit
Place dem born amBrooklyn Edit
Languages edey speak, rep anaa signEnglish Edit
Ein occupationpainter, visual artist Edit
EmployerArt Institute of Chicago Edit
Position eholdartist-in-residence Edit
Educate forFordham University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yale School of Art Edit
ResidenceChicago, Brooklyn, Farragut Houses Edit
Notable workB is for Birds in the Bronx Edit
Award e receiveJoan Mitchell Foundation, Latinx Artist Fellowship Edit
Dema official websitehttp://candidaalvarez.com/ Edit
Has works in the collectionWhitney Museum of American Art, MTA Arts & Design Permanent Art Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, Print Collection, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections Edit
Copyright status as creatorworks protected by copyrights Edit
Artist files atSmithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library Edit

Candida Alvarez (dem born am insyd 1955) be an American artist ein professor, san dey know for ein paintings den drawings.[1][2][3]

Alvarez dey exhibite at de Whitney Museum of American Art,[4] MoMA PS1,[5] Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,[6] den Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,[7] Ein work belongs to de public art collections of de Whitney,[8] Art Institute of Chicago,[9] San Jose Museum of Art,[10] den Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,[11] among odas. Dem name am a 2022 US Latinx Artist Fellow[12] ein dey be recognize by de Helen Frankenthaler Foundation,[13] Joan Mitchell Foundation[14] ein Pollock-Krasner Foundation.[15] She lives den works insyd Chicago ein Baroda, Michigan den be a professor of painting ein drawing at de School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[12][16]

Education den career

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Dem born Alvarez insyd 1955 insyd Brooklyn to parents hu dey arrive from Puerto Rico two years earlier. She grow up insyd a high-rise building insyd de Farragut Houses public housing project.[17][18][19] Alvarez attend Fordham University at Lincoln Center insyd New York den receive a BA insyd studio art/liberal arts insyd 1977; she study at de Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture insyd 1981.[14] Insyd ein early career insyd New York, she work as a curator at El Museo del Barrio[17][20] den exhibite insyd group shows at institutions including de Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, Studio Museum in Harlem (artist residency) ein Jamaica Arts Center.[5][21][22] During dat time, she dey get solo shows at Exit Art (1985), Queens Museum (1991), den Bronx Museum of de Arts (1992), among odas.[23][24]

Insyd 1995, she enroll at tde Yale School of Art, studying plus Mel Bochner, Rochelle Feinstein den Howardena Pindell.[25][3] Her studies there set de stage for de playful form of abstraction for wich she be known, ein culminate insyd an MFA insyd 1997.[20] De following year, she accept a position at de School of de Art Institute of Chicago, where she be de F. H. Sellers Professor insyd Painting.[16][26] Insyd her later career, Alvarez dey be include insyd major surveys of abstraction ("Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017)[27] ein Latinx art ("Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21," El Museo del Barrio, 2021; "Latinx Abstract," BRIC, 2021; "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art insyd de Wake of Hurricane Maria," Whitney Museum, 2022).[28][29][4] She has had solo exhibitions at de Hyde Park Art Center (2012),[30] Chicago Cultural Center (2017),[31] GAVLAK Gallery (Palm Beach, 2019; Los Angeles, 2021)[14] ein Monique Meloche Gallery (Chicago, 2020),[1] among oda venues.

Insyd 2017, six existing color works by Alvarez be adapt by Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo for ein "new camouflage" Comme des Garçons haute couture menswear collection.[32][19]

Work ein reception

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Alvarez reworks both materials ein methods insyd her work, resisting a single visual methodology den disrupting distinctions between abstraction, representation den conceptualism.[25][17] Her painting synthesizes a wide array of modes: floating color fields, highly structured geometries, subdued figural portraits, text den invisible guiding systems.[1] Critic Susan Snodgrass dey describe Alvarez’s process as syncretic ein belonging "to a strategy of cultural fusion ein hybridity dat allows passage between different contexts den histories, as does her use of personal narratives ein private symbols as markers of identity."[2]

File:Candida Alvarez Sit, Stand & Kneel 1986.jpg
Candida Alvarez, Sit, Stand & Kneel, acrylic and gel medium on canvas, 63" x 76.25", 1986.

Early work

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Insyd de 1980s, Alvarez produce largely representational paintings dat draw on ein city experiences den Puerto Rican heritage, mixing portraiture, landscape, written words den personal iconography.[22][33][34][17] She often portray family members; He loved to dream (1985) be a mixed-mode work of flat planes, sharp angles ein relief imagery depicting ein father.[35][20] Paintings such as de three-panel, altar-piece-like work, Sit, Stand & Kneel (1986) anaa Soy Boricua (I am Puerto Rican) (1989) portray passive, dutiful, wary anaa increasingly powerful female protagonists as they dey navigate roles den identities.[31][3][25] Critics characterize these color- den imagery-laden revelations of self ein traditional family life as introspective, moody, emotionally charged ein reminiscent of magic realism, naïve art anaa confessional poetry;[22][31][3] Arts Magazine's Peggy Cyphers likened dem for de art of Marc Chagall den Paul Klee.[34]

Insyd subsequent work, Alvarez dey experimente plus new mixed-media materials, textures ein multi-panel formats dat function as both structural ein narrative devices.[17][31] Ein solo exhibitions at de Bronx Museum of de Arts (1992) den New Britain Museum of American Art (1996) wey dey feature multi-image paintings of rudimentary human forms den abstract primal energies dat evoke themes of organic anaa inner growth.[24][36][37] New York Times critic Holland Cotter write dat de " lyrical, painterly work" dey charte progress "from darkness to light den from fragmentation to wholeness," drawing strength from its ambiguity regarding de relationships between human figures ein natural forces.[36] De panels hint at sequential, internal passages while also serving as external, quasi-architectural spaces, alluding to de 14th-floor housing-project windows she look out of as a child (e.g., Sisters I and Sisters 2, 1992; Sixteen Stories, 1996).[37][18][25] Dis work presage ein later interest insyd minimalist seriality den gestural abstraction.[2]

Later work

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During ein time at Yale, Alvarez study color theory den begin experimenting plus intuitive processes, puzzles ein games, insyd part dey influence by ein friendship plus de minimalist den conceptual artist Sol LeWitt.[19][2][18] These strategies push her work toward abstraction ein remixed its clearly autobiographical aspects, while maintaining its attention to process den inspirational roots.[25][18] Paintings such as Tossing Pennies (1995), wich wey incorporate pennies ein colorful painted orbs as nodes insyd a connect-de-dots scheme, be determine by chance; insyd similarly vibrant den graphic works, she used letters and numbers as organizing systems (e.g., Louise or Jimmy, both 1996).[2][25]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Voon, Claire. "Chicago Legend Candida Alvarez Finds Comfort—and Reprieve from Trauma—in Abstraction," ARTnews, March 13, 2020. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Snodgrass, Susan. "Arriving Here: Candida Alvarez," The Seen, Issue 05, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Waxman, Lori. "Candida Alvarez, Up to Try Anything," Chicago Tribune, August 3, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Whitney Museum of American Art. "no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria," Exhibitions. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Museum of Modern Art. Candida Alvarez, Artists. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  6. ↑ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "The Long Dream," Exhibitions. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  7. ↑ Glentzer, Molly. "'Outside the Lines' opens up a world of abstraction,' Houston Chronicle, November 8, 2013. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  8. ↑ Whitney Museum of American Art. Candida Alvarez, Collection. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  9. ↑ Art Institute of Chicago. Mary in the Sky With Diamonds, Candida Alvarez, Artworks. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  10. ↑ San Jose Museum of Art. "Evergreen: Art from the Collection," Exhibitions. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  11. ↑ Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Chill, Candida Alvarez, Collection. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Velie, Elaine. "15 Latinx Artist Fellows Receive $50K Grants," Hyperallergic, May 15, 2022. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  13. ↑ Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Candida Alvarez, Recipients. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Joan Mitchell Foundation. Candida Alvarez, Supported Artists. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  15. ↑ Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Candida Alvarez, Artists. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Candida Alvarez – SAIC Faculty Sabbatical Exhibit" (in American English). Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 Barbara A. MacAdam, "Candida Alvarez, Myth, Memory and Old Lace," ARTnews, February 1993, p. 67.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Jones, Kellie. "When Painting Stepped Out to Lunch," Candida Alvarez: Here. A Visual Reader, Chicago: The Green Lantern Press. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Foumberg, Jason. "Candida’s Coloring Book," Chicago Magazine, May 2017, p. 43.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Quiles, Daniel R. "Numbers and Dreams: Candida Alvarez, 1976–1988," Candida Alvarez: Here. A Visual Reader, Chicago: The Green Lantern Press. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  21. ↑ Brooklyn Museum. "Recollections: Works on Paper by Candida Alvarez & Vincent D. Smith," Exhibitions. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Brenson, Michael. "New Visions at Soho20 Gallery," The New York Times, January 9, 1987. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  23. ↑ Queens Museum. History. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Zimmer, William. "Echoes of Paris in a Montevideo School," The New York Times, January 3, 1993. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 Myers, Terry R. "Recognize," Candida Alvarez: Here. A Visual Reader, Chicago: The Green Lantern Press. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  26. ↑ Leahy, Brian T. (2020-05-01). "Candida Alvarez". Artforum (in American English). Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  27. ↑ Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art". Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. "Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today," Archived 2018-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Exhibitions. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  28. ↑ Passy, Charles. "El Museo del Barrio Hosts First Triennial Exhibition," The Wall Street Journal, March 2021. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  29. ↑ Witt, Bree. "Candida Alvarez Makes Her Mark," News, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  30. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Picard13
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 Chris Miller, Chris. "Painting A Life In Bloom," New City, July 15, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  32. ↑ Marevska, Anna. ["Comme des Garçons Spring 2017 Men’s Collection Features a Chicago Artist’s Print,"] Fashion Files, February 1, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  33. ↑ Fusco, Coco. "Hispanic Artists and Other Slurs," The Village Voice, August 9, 1980, p. 22.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Cyphers, Peggy. "Candida Alvarez," Arts, February 1990, p. 100.
  35. ↑ Pacheco, Patrick. "The New Faith in Painting," Art & Antiques, May 1991, p. 61–2.
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Cotter, Holland. "Candida Alvarez, Bronx Museum of the Arts," The New York Times, December 18, 1992, p. C37. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Zimmer, William. "Sculpture of Large Gestures And a Sense of Place," The New York Times, June 16, 1996. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
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