Candida Alvarez
| Candida Alvarez | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 2, 1955 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Fordham University Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| Alma mater | Yale School of Art |
| Known for | Painting |
Candida Alvarez, was born in Brooklyn New York in 1955, (age 63). She is an American painter, a tenured professor of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1998.
Candida Alvarez had 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.
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". Her painting has long been added in an important survey of Kansas city. It was adopted by Avant -garde Japanese fashion designer Rei K awakubo. She has for the past two decades tutored in the school of Art, Institute of Chicago.
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